The WSJ Moves To Dismiss The Epstein Birthday Book Lawsuit Filed By Donald Trump

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Of course Donald Trump says that never happened. He didn't do it and it's all fake.

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal stands by the reporting and they say that it's authentic

and that they can prove it in court. And while I'm certainly not a friend to the legacy media,

I think that they're on point here and I think that this letter is in fact authentic.

And if it's not or they have concerns that it's not, then shouldn't a fraud investigation be

open against Epstein's estate? Shouldn't the FBI be looking into what happened here and why

somebody is trying to create a forgery of a letter that was supposedly sent by the president

of the United States? Wouldn't that warrant some kind of robust investigation? I would think so,

right? I know that if I was the president or anybody and I thought that somebody forged some kind

of crazy ass birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein from me, I'd be all over an investigation.

And what's interesting is you see Trump talking about go after this one go after that one.

We saw the truth social post recently to pound Bondy about going after people and arrest in them.

But we don't hear anything about this being a forgery, right? We don't hear anything about

an investigation into that. So that leads me to believe that Trump knows that this letter is true.

He knows that it's authentic and he's just fighting tooth and nail because he doesn't want the optics

of being attached to Jeffrey Epstein. But I think it's going to backfire and blow up in his face

because I think that it's rather obvious that this letter is authentic.

Today's article is from ABC News and the headline. Wall Street Journal moves to dismiss Trump's

$10 billion lawsuit over alleged letter in Epstein's birthday book. This article was authored by James

Hill. The Wall Street Journal and its parent companies Dow Jones and News Corp filed a motion on

Monday to dismiss President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit over the paper's July

article reporting on an alleged letter from Trump that was included in a 50th birthday book for the

late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. The motion contends that the

article is true. And look again, I'm not going to rehash what I just said a second ago, but I

believe that I believe that the articles true. I believe that Donald Trump sent it and I believe

that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were very close. Now, do I believe that Donald Trump was

abusing people with Epstein? I haven't seen any evidence of that. What I am seeing evidence of

is Donald Trump engaging in a cover up. And so I think that leaves us with a question of

who's he covering up for and why? Because at this point, there's nobody that's going to convince me

that he's not covering this up, that he's not putting the brakes on this information coming out.

You don't make a U turn the way he did unless something drastic happens and that somebody presses

you or unless you find out there is something real damning inside of those documents.

So if this is a big hoax and this is a fake letter that's been forged, let's get that investigation

going. And if that investigation finds out that this is a forgery, then people need to go to

prison. And I'll be the first one to come out to this podcast and say I was wrong. But I have a

funny feeling that's not going to occur. The birthday book as produced by the Epstein estate

and later publicly released by the House Oversight Committee contains a letter identical to the one

described in the article, the motion states. And I think that once we saw the actual letter itself,

it was rather obvious to me that it was real that it was authentic, that it was something that was

produced. Now I don't know if Donald Trump drew that doodle, oh, you know, the woman's body or

whatever, I have no idea. But that signature, that signature certainly looks like his signature,

no. So unless it's a very, very, very, very good forgery, then I'm going to have to say that

Donald Trump and his lawsuit is destined for failure here. The motion further contends that the

article is not defamatory, arguing that there is nothing defamatory about a person sending a

body note to a friend and the article cannot damage plaintiffs reputation as a matter of law.

Not a bad argument, right? Look, you sent the letter. Seems like a you problem. How can it be

defamatory if it's real? That's what it comes down to, right? Is it real or isn't it?

And like I said previously, I think it's real. Now, of course, I can't sit here and tell you

with certainty that that's the case. I have no idea. I'm not somebody that can authenticate

if that's really Donald Trump signature or if he really drew that picture. But what I can tell

you is that two plus two equals four. And when it's as obvious as this is, I don't know how

anyone can even try and deny it. Like when it first came out and there was all those denials

from people saying there's no way Donald Trump would ever do something like this.

He doesn't draw notes. He doesn't doodle. He doesn't. Meanwhile, he did all of that, right?

We've seen pictures that he's drawn previously. And of course, the signature certainly matches up.

Now, look, again, I don't know with certainty if it's real or not. But when you start piecing

everything together and you start looking at the ramifications of a forgery, do you really think

that Epstein's executors Richard Khan and Darren Indike are going to do something like that?

What would they have to gain by forging that letter? What exactly would they have to gain?

Especially considering the executors and the estate are still going through some lawsuits

and still have a lot of things going on. The last thing they need is more bad publicity

or a god dang FBI raid, right? So I highly doubt that the estate is engaging in a forgery.

So if the estate didn't do it, who did? You can't just make all these claims that something was

forged and not give anybody anything, especially when you're the president of the United States.

The complaint should be dismissed with prejudice and the court should award defendants.

There are reasonable attorney fees and costs, the motion states. And I think that's probably where

this is going to go. I think this is going to get dismissed. I don't know about with prejudice,

but I think it's going to get dismissed. And then from there, I think there's going to be some

payment going on. Trump filed the lawsuit in July in federal court in Florida, seeking damages of

at least $10 billion. The president has argued that the letter is fake and that the signature on

the letter is not his. The president's defamation complaint asserted that the article falsely

passes off as a fact that President Trump in 2003 wrote, drew and signed this letter. But

his defense contends in its filing on Monday that is a mischaracterization of the content of the

article, which they contend does not assert as a matter of fact that he personally signed the letter

or drew the image, the motion states. The journal also contends that the article cannot be

defamatory to the president because the article is consistent with the president's reputation,

citing the president's past comments about Epstein and other past statements about women,

including a reference to the access Hollywood tapes that surfaced just prior to his election

in 2016. Well, prior behavior certainly comes into play. And when we're talking about a case like

this, you know that the Wall Street Journal is going to come correct with their lawyers. They're

going to have very good lawyers to deal with Donald Trump's very good lawyers. And we're going to

see what happens. But I think when a judge gets his hands on it or her hands on it, it's going to

be a different story because I don't see any defamation here. Instead, what I see is the most

powerful man in the world doing everything in his power to try and kill the story. That's what I

see. Because plaintiff is publicly admitted that he was Epstein's friend in the early 2000s,

his reputation cannot be harmed by the suggestion that he was friends with Epstein in 2003.

Indeed, he was listed in the birthday book as a friend of Epstein, the fact that his relationship

with Epstein may now be a political liability over 20 years after the birthday book was presented

to Epstein does not change this conclusion. The defendants contend and not only that, but Donald

Trump and multiple members of his family were found in the black book too. So look, you cannot deny

the connections, right? You can't sit here and say, well, they weren't friendly. They were

just like you can't sit here and say with surety that Donald Trump was engaged in any kind of

illegal activity with Jeffrey Epstein. We don't have that evidence. And for me, when you make a big

claim, you have to have big evidence to back it up. Now, of course, please don't confuse that with

me not having suspicions about people. I most certainly do. But I think that unless we have big

evidence, we can't be making gigantic big claims about this one doing that or that one doing this

with nothing to back it up because I think that does more harm than good in the long run. You get

that, you know, quick shot at dopamine, maybe some headlines, maybe go viral or whatever. But in the

long run, it doesn't really work out. Does it? And that's because credibility is a currency. And a lot

of people seem to forget that they're in a rush to be first, not given a single damn if they're right.

And I think it's more important that we get things as close to the truth as possible instead of

just getting stories out because you want to be first. I think at the end of the day, that does more

harm than good, especially when you miss the mark. And you see that a lot in the news, right?

We get the initial reaction and then it turns into something different and then something different

again. That's why when it comes to these bigger stories, I usually don't even bother paying attention

until a few days go by and we have an idea of what's going on and the fog of war if you will

has lifted a bit. President Trump has a reputation both for being friendly with Epstein in 2003

and for making body statements about women. Plaintiff will therefore never be able to establish

the defendant acted with knowing falsity in publishing the article. In the end, of course,

it turns out the article was not false at all, as confirmed by the House Oversight Committee's release

of the birthday book, The Motion States. And I think that's going to be the dagger in the heart

of the argument. The book exists, the letter exists, so if it's not real, who forged it?

The defense motion calls the president's lawsuit and a front to the First Amendment and seeks

dismissal with prejudice along with a grant of attorney fees and cost to the defendants.

And that's pretty standard, right? If you're looking for a dismissal, you're going to try and get

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The president of the United States brought this lawsuit to silence a newspaper

for publishing speech that was subsequently proven true by documents released by Congress

to the American public. By his very nature this meritless lawsuit threatens to chill the speech

of those who dared to publish content that the president does not like.

This lawsuit should not be permitted to proceed the defendant argued and there's a lot of truth

in that. What's next? Going after podcasts, going after people for saying demeaning things.

Very slippery slope folks and we're right on the edge.

President Trump filed the defamation complaint in July against the journal. It's publisher Dow Jones.

It's corporate owner news corporation and his executives and the two reporters who wrote the story

that first reported on Trump's alleged contribution to the body letter to a book for Epstein's 50th

birthday in 2003, three years before Epstein's first arrest and Florida on charges of solicitation

of prostitution. The article reported that Trump's alleged letter to Epstein contain text

of an imaginary conversation between the two men with a hand drawn outline of an naked woman.

The letter concluded the journal reported with the lines of pal is a wonderful thing. Happy

birthday and may every day be another wonderful secret. What in the ever-living world of

didlers does that even fucking mean? A pal is a wonderful thing. May every day be another

wonderful secret? What sort of secrets are we talking about here? President Trump.

After the article was published, Trump claimed that he alerted the newspaper in advance that the

letter was not legitimate. The Wall Street Journal and news court, Robert Murdoch personally,

were warned directly by President Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump

to Epstein was a fake and if they printed, they will be sued. Trump posted on his social media

platform after the story was published. The press has to learn to be truthful and not rely on

sources that probably don't even exist. Well, sure looks like this source existed, huh?

Trump's lawsuit alleges that the story falsely claimed that Trump authored, drew and signed a

card to wish the late and utterly disgraced Jeffrey Epstein a happy 50th birthday. According to

the complaint filed in federal court in Florida, the filing alleges that no authentic letter or

drawing exists and that the defendants concocted the story to malign Trump's character and integrity.

Yo, that is a big, big accusation. So who forged it?

Earlier this month, lawyers for the executors of Epstein's estate produced a copy of Epstein's 50th

birthday book in response to a subpoena from the Republican led House Committee on Oversight

and government reform. Top Democrats on the committee quickly publicized an image of the alleged

contribution from Trump, which largely tracked with the description of the letter published in the

Wall Street Journal. Well, no shit it did. The Wall Street Journal is not going to put themselves

out on a ledge here, especially when you're dealing with somebody as litigous as Trump.

The Republican chairman of the committee, Representative James Comer, subsequently released

additional pages from the birthday book, a 238 page bound volume that includes a prologue that is

attributed to Glenn Maxwell, the convicted co-conspirator of Epstein, the contributors are divided into

the categories of family, Brooklyn, girlfriends, children, friends, science, special assistants,

and business with many of the names redacted. The White House continues to deny the authenticity of

the letter. The president did not write this letter, he did not sign this letter, and that's why

the president's external legal team is aggressively pursuing litigation against the Wall Street

Journal and they will continue to do so. White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt set out a

press briefing. Well, that's nice, huh? Glad to know they have nothing else to do. Let's go

after the press for telling the truth. Now, look, I don't know if there's anybody that's more critical

of the legacy media than me. But when it comes to this specific topic, this letter, I had no doubt

from the jump that they were telling the truth. For the simple reason that they knew the ramifications

would be gigantic if they weren't. It's not my signature, it's not the way I speak,

and anybody that's covered me for a long time knows that that's not my language. Trump said

when asked about the matter earlier this month, well, now we're going to have to wait for a court

to figure out what's going on here, and if this letter is authentic or not. But like I've said

several times throughout this episode and previously, I believe that the letter is authentic,

and I believe that Donald Trump, at the very least, signed it. So like usual, we'll continue to

follow along and see where this ends up. As for this one, well, that's going to do it. All of the

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