President Trump on Thursday slammed the Wall Street Journal for publishing an article about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender. The Journal detailed a birthday correspondence they claim was sent by Trump to Epstein in 2003.

No doubt for mainstream-media readers, the Epstein rift came out of nowhere,” said a New York Times reporter. “We had not established how important this story was to a good chunk of the MAGA base.” A political reporter at a rival publication added,

President Donald Trump said Rupert Murdoch, the former CEO of News Corp, agreed to kill the Wall Street Journal article alleging he wrote a "bawdy" letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday

Former Jeffrey Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz claims he knows names that are being "suppressed" to "protect individuals." He made this claim during an