WSJ owner Dow Jones’s first reaction to Donald Trump’s lawsuit
Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones vowed to “vigorously defend” itself after U.S. President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit over an article linking him to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“We have full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reporting, and will vigorously defend against any lawsuit,” news agency AFP quoted a Dow Jones spokesperson’s statement hours after the suit was filed in a Miami federal court.
The lawsuit filed by US President, has named Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and reporters Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo as defendants.
Trump has alleged WSJ of publishing a defamatory and false story regarding his past interactions with Epstein in a 18 page complaint filed in federal court in Miami.
The lawsuit came after WSJ published a article that claimed Trump, then a real estate developer, had sent a suggestive birthday letter to Epstein in 2003, including a nude illustration and a reference to a shared “secret.”
The lawsuit has made claim that there is no such letter accused journal and its reporters of fabricating evidence to harm Trump politically.
“The reason for those failures is because no authentic letter or drawing exists,” Trump’s legal team wrote in the filing.