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Did Trump actually talk to Rupert Murdoch about the Epstein letter? [1]
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Date: 2025-07-25
Bradley Edwards, lawyer for over 200 of Epstein victims says the leather bound birthday book exists in the possession of Jeffrey Epstein's estate, and that they would be willing to hand it over. There are also digital copies that were made. Case closed for Donald Trump.
There or two things that Donald didn't think of in filing the suit, or at least his lawyer on one of them. Florida requires a 5-day notice before filing a lawsuit against a newspaper, this is to give a newspaper time to print a retraction or correction. That was not done. The lawsuit was filed the very next day. Donald's mistake is not realizing that he's going to have to sit for depositions on the case if he follows through on it.
The 18 page complaint (PDF) says that Palazzolo, one of the article's authors, emailed Karoline Leavitt about the publication on the 15th and a counsel for the president emailed back a cease and desist. The complaint says they received no response. That was it. The article came out on the 17th.
You would think that if Donald had made those calls he claimed to have made to Murdoch and Tucker, the WSJ editor, it would have been important back up about cease and desist notice. In his first Truth Social post about the article, he says he personally contacted Rupert Murdoch and the editor of the WSJ. As did Karoline Leavitt. None of that is in the complaint.
Donald doesn't do email, and apparently hasn't done texting in years, while still getting them. He only does Truth Social and phone calls.
Witness Trump's post just later that day where he says he "told" Murdoch not to print the story.
Trump just made it up just like he likes to make up dialogue between people that never happened, like between the Unabomber and his uncle. He makes up dialogue to him showing how important he is, starting with "Sir, sir, can we please have some more winning?"
He wrote the two-way dialogue between himself and Epstein, because Trump does have "wonderful secrets."
He lied about making phone calls. He lies about those on a regular basis as well as receiving phone calls from people, like President Xi.
Trump wants a jury trial. Sure would be fun to watch. Donald seems to like $10 billion is a good starting point on defamation cases. He was only going for 50 million dollars against Bob Woodward for publishing audio tapes of interviews with him, which he lost last Friday.
Did we know that Donald Trump lies? Of course we did. And he's going to to do it in every Epstein corner he gets put in. It'll be interesting to see what lies he'll tell on his Scotland trip. "Because if it's not Scottish, it's crap!" (Mike Myers on SNL).
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