President Donald Trump reportedly called Rupert Murdoch from Air Force One, urging the media mogul to kill the Wall Street Journal’s then-pending report about a birthday note he allegedly wrote to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The phone call is part of a new report from the WSJ, detailing the inside story of how the Trump administration scrambled to handle the Epstein files fallout during a chaotic summer, reportedly characterized by “disorganization,” high-stakes strategy meetings in the Situation Room, “finger-pointing,” and a series of “unforced errors.”