Two months ago, President Donald Trump sued The Wall Street Journal for defamation after the newspaper reported that he had contributed to a 2003 collection of messages marking the 50th birthday of financier Jeffrey Epstein , who was later charged with sex trafficking involving underage girls. Trump called that report a "scam" and a "fake story," and his defamation complaint implied that the birthday letter attributed to him did not exist.

The Journal article "does not attach the purported letter [and] does not identify the purported drawing," says the complaint , which Trump filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on July 18. "Tellingly, the Article does not explain whether Defendants have obtained a copy of the letter, have seen it, have had it described to

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