Trump Calls in Ghislaine Maxwell for a Favor in $10B Lawsuit
President Donald Trump is turning to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell as he resurrects his lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over an article about a lewd birthday letter bearing his signature sent to Jeffrey Epstein.
The president refiled his $10 billion lawsuit on Wednesday after a federal judge threw out his first lawsuit in April, finding he had not sufficiently alleged “actual malice,” the legal threshold required in defamation suits involving public officials.
In the revised lawsuit, Trump’s lawyers argue that the Journal showed actual malice by omitting from the article Maxwell’s claim that she had no recollection of Trump sending the letter, citing testimony from her controversial sit-down last July with then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
“Indeed, Maxwell has stated, subject to penalty of perjury for lying to a federal officer, that she did not remember President Trump submitting a letter for Epstein’s 50th birthday,” the president’s lawsuit states.
But in the original Journal article about the letter, which Trump allegedly sent to Epstein for a birthday album Maxwell compiled for the pedophile’s birthday in 2003, the reporters wrote that Maxwell didn’t respond to a letter requesting an interview sent to her in prison. (Read more from “Trump Calls in Ghislaine Maxwell for a Favor in $10B Lawsuit” HERE)
