President Trump on Tuesday claimed that the Wall Street Journal wants to settle the defamation lawsuit he filed after the outlet reported on a letter Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein. “It’s in the lawyer’s hands.

Donald Trump claims that The Wall Street Journal wants to settle his $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the publication and Rupert Murdoch earlier this month over a story on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump claims the WSJ is trying to settle the defamation suit he filed over their report that he wrote a bawdy letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. The post ‘They Want to Settle’: Trump Claims the Wall St.

A collection of letters gifted to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003 included a note bearing Donald Trump’s name and an outline of a naked woman, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Thursday.

President Donald Trump sued the Wall Street Journal, seeking at least $10 billion in damages, after the newspaper described a letter he allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.

The letter was part of an album collected by Ghislaine Maxwell, the former Epstein associate currently in federal prison. Trump denies writing the letter.

Defendants concocted this story to malign President Trump’s character and integrity and deceptively portray him in a false light,” the suit alleged.

Trump has sued Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal over its July 17 article alleging the president sent a “bawdy” letter to Epstein for his 50th birthday, which included a drawing of a naked woman and Trump telling the late financier, “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

July 17 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's name appeared on a risque 2003 personal note to Jeffrey Epstein, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The president responded that the letter was fake.