{"id":18747,"date":"2025-07-23T18:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18747"},"modified":"2025-07-23T18:56:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:56:30","slug":"trump-who-wants-to-straighten-out-the-press-sues-the-wall-street-journal-over-fake-epstein-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18747","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Who Wants To ‘Straighten Out the Press,’ Sues The Wall Street Journal Over ‘Fake’ Epstein Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“President Donald Trump sued<\/a> The Wall Street Journal<\/em> for reporting<\/a> that he contributed to a 2003 collection of letters marking the 50th birthday of financier Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, who was later charged with sex trafficking involving underage girls. Although it is well established<\/a> that Trump was friendly with Epstein when that leather-bound set of birthday wishes was produced, Trump insists he did not write the “bawdy” letter described by the Journal<\/em>, which he calls<\/a> a “scam” and a “fake story.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever the merits of this particular defamation claim, the president has a long history of abusing the legal system to punish constitutionally protected speech.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/07\/21\/trump-who-wants-to-straighten-out-the-press-sues-the-wall-street-journal-over-fake-epstein-letter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“President Donald Trump sued The Wall Street Journal for reporting that he contributed to a 2003 collection of letters marking the 50th birthday of financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was later charged with sex trafficking involving underage girls. Although it is well established that Trump was friendly with Epstein when that leather-bound set of birthday wishes was produced, Trump insists he did not write the “bawdy” letter described by the Journal, which he calls a “scam” and a “fake story.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Whatever the merits of this particular defamation claim, the president has a long history of abusing the legal system to punish constitutionally protected speech.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/07\/21\/trump-who-wants-to-straighten-out-the-press-sues-the-wall-street-journal-over-fake-epstein-letter\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,170],"class_list":["post-18747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18748,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747\/revisions\/18748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}