The White House eliminates Scotland Press Pool WSJ on Epstein’s article

The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said that the Wall Street Journal has been withdrawn from the press pool that covers the trip by Scotland by President Donald Trump due to the newspaper’s story about a sexually suggestive birthday letter that Trump supposedly once gave Jeffre Epstein.

“Due to the false and defamatory behavior of the Wall Street Journal, they will not be one of the thirteen points of sale on board,” Leavitt said Monday in a statement, marking the last instance of the White House that blocks the points of sale of report opportunities.

“Each news organization worldwide wishes to cover President Trump, and the White House has taken significant measures to include as many voices as possible,” he continued.

The newspaper declined to comment on Monday.

Leavitt added that the points of sale were allowed to cover the trip, which will run from Friday until the following Tuesday, it will be “diverse.” Trump has visits scheduled for Turnberry and Aberdeen, home in Trump’s golf courses, and to meet with the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, to discuss the United States-Rio-Reinian trade agreement.

The reprisal against the magazine occurs days after Trump filed a lawsuit against journalists who wrote the history and owners of the newspaper, saying that the letter is a manufacture.

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“The defendants invented this story with the character and integrity of President Trump and portray it deceptively in a false light,” says the demand, which seeks at least $ 10 billion in damages. The lawsuit states that the story was “malicious, deliberate and despicable” and that it will cause “overwhelming financial and reputational damage” to the president.

Trump announced the complaint in a social publication full of anger.

“This demand is presented not only in the name of its favorite president, I, but also to continue defending all Americans who will no longer tolerate abusive irregularities of false media,” he wrote.

The 2003 letter presented by the newspaper includes the drawing of a contour of the body of a naked woman and a cryptic message for the late sexual offender who reads: “Happy birthday, and every day they are another wonderful secret.” The message presents Trump’s firm, although he states that he had nothing to do with the note or drawing.

“I never wrote a photo in my life. I don’t draw photos of women,” he told the Journal. “It’s not my language. They are not my words.”

According to reports, the letter was among the materials reviewed by the Department of Justice during an earlier investigation of Epstein, who hanged himself in 2019 while waiting for a trial on sexual trafficking positions. It is not clear if it is one of the records recently reviewed by the Trump Department of Justice, which surprised the president’s base when he announced that Epstein’s archives was no longer launched and was closing the case effectively earlier this month.