Trump Defends $10B WSJ Suit, Calling Epstein Letter A 'Fake'

By Lauren Berg ( October 21, 2025, 7:51 PM EDT) -- President Donald Trump is defending his $10 billion defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal over an article reporting that he sent a "bawdy" birthday letter to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, telling a Florida federal judge the newspaper tried to "characterize the fake, salacious letter as correspondence among ordinary friends."...

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