President Donald Trump said on Thursday that former News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch agreed to kill the Wall Street Journal story alleging he wrote a "bawdy" letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday, but since the outlet moved forward anyway he will sue.
In a lengthy post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump said Murdoch "obviously did not have the power" to prevent the article from being published. He added that both him and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the WSJ Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker that the letter was "FAKE" but she "didn't want to hear that.
