The Wall Street Journal filed a motion Monday asking a federal court to throw out President Donald Trump ‘s defamation lawsuit — which seeks at least $20 billion in damages — over an article in the Journal about a birthday letter purportedly written by Trump to Jeffrey Epstein. The first reason it should be thrown out, according to the WSJ’s filing: “The article is true.”

On July 17, 2025, the Wall Street Journal reported that a letter bearing Trump’s name appeared in a birthday book containing letters from the family and friends of Epstein, the disgraced financier who was a convicted sex offender. In an interview with the paper, the president denied writing the letter. “This is not me,” Trump said, as quoted by the Journal. “This is a fake thing.”

According to the Wall Street Jour

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