{"id":31018,"date":"2025-07-18T13:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=31018"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:24:03","slug":"trump-statement-after-birthday-letter-he-allegedly-sent-jeffrey-epstein-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=31018","title":{"rendered":"Trump statement after birthday letter he allegedly sent Jeffrey Epstein revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"main-content-blt7d8fd7e768502b94\" class=\"content-template_leftColumnInner__Du7BU\">\n<div class=\"content-template_body__RWRhb\">\n<div style=\"display: contents;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><strong>Donald Trump has issued a furious statement and threatened to sue a US newspaper after a disturbing birthday letter he allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein was revealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The Wall Street Journal <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> a piece this week claiming <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/ghislaine-maxwell\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a> &#8211; the former girlfriend and accomplice of <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> &#8211; collected messages from Epstein&#8217;s associates and added them to a birthday album for a celebration in 2003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">One of the alleged messages was signed by President <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/donald-trump\">Trump<\/a>, according to the documents reviewed by the newspaper.<\/p>\n<div class=\"floating-video-player_container__u4D9_\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">WSJ reports the letter featured a few lines of typewritten text, which was seemingly framed by a hand-drawn outline of a naked woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;Happy Birthday &#8211; and may every day be another wonderful secret,&#8221; the alleged letter concluded, before being signed off with just &#8216;Donald&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Trump swiftly took to Truth Social to address the article, stating he now plans to sue the WSJ after deeming the letter &#8216;fake&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image_articleImage__eyzAn\">\n<div class=\"article-image_imageWrapper__ANtPE\">\n<div class=\"resizable-image_wrapper__LRQlr\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 1em auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=1&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt80db88ca9b159bde\/6879e9501760dc75b95b7b32\/GettyImages-2225249303.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump has hit back at an article that claims to contain a letter he wrote to the late Jeffrey Epstein (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" data-nimg=\"fill\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><cite class=\"image-credit_imageCredit__YMlqS\">Donald Trump has hit back at an article that claims to contain a letter he wrote to the late Jeffrey Epstein (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The president wrote: &#8220;The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued. &#8220;Mr. Murdoch stated that he would take care of it but, obviously, did not have the power to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;The Editor of The Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, was told directly by Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the letter was a FAKE, but Emma Tucker didn&#8217;t want to hear that. Instead, they are going with a false, malicious, and defamatory story anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;President Trump will be suing The Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. Murdoch, shortly. The Press has to learn to be truthful, and not rely on sources that probably don&#8217;t even exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Convicted pedophile Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/new-york\">New York City<\/a> in August 2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image_articleImage__eyzAn\">\n<div class=\"article-image_imageWrapper__ANtPE\">\n<div class=\"resizable-image_wrapper__LRQlr\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 1em auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=1&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt3e5734cd3f685717\/6879e9295cb913700acb57dc\/GettyImages-1157188512.jpg\" alt=\"Epstein was awaiting trial before his death (Neil Rasmus\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" data-nimg=\"fill\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><cite class=\"image-credit_imageCredit__YMlqS\">Epstein was awaiting trial before his death (Neil Rasmus\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The financier had been <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/crime\">arrested<\/a> earlier in the year and died aged 66 while awaiting trial for charges related to sex trafficking &#8211; <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/true-crime\">charges<\/a> to which he pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">In a follow-up Truth Social post, Trump ordered the attorney general, Pam Bondi, to release &#8216;any and all pertinent grand jury testimony&#8217; in relation to Epstein&#8217;s case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;President Trump-we are ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts,&#8221; Bondi quickly responded on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The Justice Department has said in the past that over 200 documents relating to Epstein are in their possession, while the FBI is said to have thousands more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Trump has said the release of any documents would be subject to court approval.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><cite class=\"image-credit_imageCredit__YMlqS\">Featured Image Credit: JIM WATSON\/Getty<\/cite><\/p>\n<p class=\"topics-list_topic__nSIGw\">Topics:\u00a0<a class=\"topics-list_tag__Ryb8j\" href=\"\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, <a class=\"topics-list_tag__Ryb8j\" href=\"\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, <a class=\"topics-list_tag__Ryb8j\" href=\"\/ghislaine-maxwell\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>, <a class=\"topics-list_tag__Ryb8j\" href=\"\/us-news\">US News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Donald Trump has issued a furious statement and threatened to sue a US newspaper after a disturbing birthday letter he allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein was revealed. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31020,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31018\/revisions\/31020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}