The Wall Street Journal, his parent company and Rupert Murdoch asked a federal judge to reject the defamation trial of $ 10 billion in Donald Trump on the publication report on the president’s previous links with Jeffrey Epstein.
“The protections of the first amendment for the truthful discourse are the backbone of the Constitution,” wrote the lawyers of the review in their motion.
Lawyers also challenged the idea that the article could have damaged Trump’s reputation, noting that he had “publicly admitted” to talk about the locker room “and made many public debauchery declarations” as well as his relationship with Epstein.
Read the motion of the Wall Street Journal to reject Trump’s trial.
In July, the Newspaper reported on a letter in the name of Trump which was included in an album given to Epstein for his 50th anniversary in 2003. The letter, the Newspaper Reported: “contains several lines of typed text framed by the outline of a naked woman, who seems to be drawn by hand with a heavy marker”, the Newspaper reported, adding that a “pair of small arcs indicates the woman’s breasts, and that the signature of the future president is a” Donald “corrugated under its size, imitating pubic hair.”
Trump denied Newspaper that he wrote the letter and threatened to continue. He also said that he had spoken to Murdoch beforehand, and the media tycoon told him that he would “take care”.
The letter was later part of the lot of equipment published by the Chamber’s surveillance committee.
The newspaper lawyers wrote in the motion: “First of allThe article is true. The birthday book produced by the Epstein field and published publicly by the Chamber’s surveillance committee contains a letter identical to that described in the article.
The lawyers of the newspaper also wrote: “Even if he had pointed out that President Trump had personally designed the letter – and it is not – there is nothing defamatory about a person sending a debauchery to a friend, and the article cannot harm the claimant’s reputation as a question of the law. He had known Epstein for “15 years” and that Epstein was a “great guy”, “a lot of pleasure to be” and “loves beautiful women as much as I”. President Trump also admitted publicly in changing room speeches and has made many public debauchery statements.
More to come.
