The Wall Street Journal thought it had a bombshell. What it got instead was a furious, very public threat from Donald Trump that has everyone asking what’s really going on behind the scenes. Late Thursday night, the paper ran with a story claiming Trump once penned a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein — complete with, of all things, a sketch of a naked woman framing the message.
Trump didn’t just deny it. He blasted it to pieces. “This is not me. This is a fake thing,” he said directly to the Journal, before following up with a fiery statement that landed like a thunderclap in media circles: Rupert Murdoch and editor Emma Tucker had been warned personally not to print it, and they’d “be sued” if they did.
Within hours, Trump doubled down. “President Trump will be suing the Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. Murdoch shortly,” Trump announced, daring them to test him. The Journal, notably, didn’t show the alleged letter. No images. No verifiable proof. Just a description — buried in the story — that it supposedly appeared in a leather-bound album of Epstein memorabilia and was part of a DOJ evidence trove known as the “Epstein files.”
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 18, 2025
Here’s where it gets slippery. Neither the DOJ nor the FBI backed up the story. The article even admitted those agencies didn’t comment. Meanwhile, Trump’s team went on offense. Pam Bondi, his attorney general, was reportedly ready to march into court Friday morning to move for unsealing any grand jury transcripts on Epstein. Trump said publicly he told her to release everything a judge would allow.
President Trump—we are ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts. pic.twitter.com/hOXzdTcYYB
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) July 18, 2025
And if you thought that would calm things down? Think again. Trump’s post tore into the story’s credibility, pointing out that if any such letter existed, it would have been splashed across headlines years ago by “Comey, Brennan, Crooked Hillary, and other Radical Left Lunatics.”
Instead, this alleged piece of evidence somehow sat in a government file through the entirety of the Biden administration… conveniently surfacing just as Trump’s polling climbs higher than ever among Republican voters.
For all the noise, one inconvenient fact remains: there has never been evidence tying Trump to Epstein’s crimes. Their social overlap was in the New York elite scene long before Epstein’s monstrous activities became public. They’d had a falling out well before Epstein’s 2006 arrest. That context, though, doesn’t stop outlets from dangling insinuations like bloody bait.
But here’s the wildest twist: even as some conservative voices nitpick Trump’s strategy on the Epstein issue, his support is actually rising. The latest polls show his approval increasing with Republican voters since the DOJ announcements. And that fact alone is driving some in the press absolutely crazy.
So now the stage is set: a major newspaper daring to imply something salacious, a former president threatening to drag them into court, and a mysterious “letter” nobody seems able to produce.
