Donald Trump crossed another Rubicón on Friday by sue, being president of the United States, to a media for publishing a journalistic history with which he is not satisfied. Trump’s lawyers registered in a Florida court a lawsuit for Libel and slander against the editors of the conservative newspaper The Wall Street Journal and the two reporters who signed on Thursday night the news that angered the Republican.
The exclusive realized a birthday congratulation letter rise. Trump was sent in 2003, always according to the Journalto Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile millionaire who at that time was his intimate friend and who in 2019 died in a Manhattan cell while waiting for his trial for sexual trafficking of minors.
Trump immediately said after the publication of the Journal That the letter was false, and announced that it would sue the newspaper and its owner, the Australian magnate of the communication Rupert Murdoch. It is not the first time that the Republican undertakes legal measures against the media, but the first one who does it being president, a case that this Friday afternoon in Washington (local time) did not consist of precedents.
More or less at the same time when the news of the lawsuit was known, it came, in something that seemed like a concerted operation, the confirmation that the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, had requested a judge of Manhattan the declassification of a small part of the documents of the EPSTEIN CASE, As Trump had asked him the night before, to see if they manage to placate the spirits of the Maga Movement.
The president’s followers are on the foot of war since two Sundays ago, the Department of Justice published a document with two conclusions that set theories of the conspiracy over the conspiracy on the EPSTEIN CASE that Trump and Bondi had fed: the list of names of rich and celebrities who participated in the Millionaire’s Sexual Abuse Network does not exist and he committed suicide in his cell that night of 2019. That is to say they did not kill him, as they suspect those who doubt the official version.
Both an idea and the other have been tested by the authorities over the years several times. The difference is to see Trump now, who campaigned promising that he would shed light on the shadows of the case, to say that there is no succulent information to share in the archives that work in the power of the Department of Justice.
The documents that Bondi and Trump want to make public belong to the first steps of the instruction of the case. The appeal in certain cases to the help of a large jury. Integrated by a variable number of citizens, the prosecutor exposes their arguments and the evidence with which he is confident in achieving a conviction so that they decide whether it is worth continuing with the process or not. These works are confidential, and in this matter, the privacy of the victims is a priority. Now it is time to wait to see if the judge orders or not to publish those documents.
Epstein skeptics expect much more than that: the flight records of their jet Private, compromising materials of the summary – such as videos, photographs and audio recordings – or the black notebook with an alleged list of clients that would demonstrate the existence of a global elite dedicated to the traffic of minors and of which, six years later, it remains without reliable evidence about its existence.
The publication of the history of Journal It is part of, on the other hand, in the phenomenal media attention that the change of idea of the president about his former friend, with whom in 2019 he had been “15 years without speaking,” he is having these days in the United States.
The letter of discord is a congratulation to Epstein for his 50th birthday. As it was a round date, Ghislaine Maxwell wanted to prepare a surprise and asked the friends of the honoree to write affectionate texts. Maxwell was a partner and confidant of Epstein, and today he serves a 20 -year prison sentence for getting the minors of which the businessman abused. Trump’s letter, says the New York newspaper, “contains several typed lines of typical text framed by the silhouette of a naked woman, who seems hand drawn with a thick marker.” “A couple of small arches mark women’s breasts, and the signature of the future president is a scribble of ‘Donald’ under his waist, imitating the female pubic hair. The text concludes: ‘Happy birthday, and that every day is another wonderful secret.”
Trump denied the veracity of the document, because, he said in a text in his social network, he does not write like this and does not have the habit of “drawing women.” This Friday he said in Truth that he is looking forward to Murdoch testifying at the trial against him and “against the heap of shit of his newspaper.” “It will be an interesting experience!” He added.
The president of the United States accumulates numerous attempts to silence the media in the courts, but had always sued them when he was not in the White House, either to the CNN OA Los Pulitzer, for rewarding an investigation into the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections that took him for the first time to the White House. The complaint against the Journal It is part of the last campaign of intimidation of your administration to the critical media with him.
That offensive has already been charged; of the CBS for publishing an interview edited with Kamala Harris when she was a candidate, who, according to Trump, benefited the Democrats; or of the AP agency, to which the White House denies access to the Oval Office and the presidential plane Air Force One for his refusal to adopt.
Everything indicates that the Journal He has full confidence in the material he published on Thursday. In addition, in the United States the libel is not an easy cause to win, since freedom of the press enjoys a robust tradition in this country. That does not take away so that Trump aspires to change the rules that apply to the press, to which he has repeatedly called “the enemy of the people” and is proud to have achieved that he loses credibility, as the surveys prove, among American public opinion.
