White House Attempted Blocking Publication of Embarrassing WSJ Jeffrey Epstein Story

The White House attempted to block the publication of Wall Street Journal article about President Donald Trump‘s alleged 2003 birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that contained suggestive language.
Trump threatened legal action against the paper if it printed the story, which published on the paper’s website Thursday afternoon.
According to Wall Street, the letter was part of birthday album with contributions from several people, including Alan Dershowitz and Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner.
The letter “is bawdy — like others in the album,” the Journal wrote. “It contains lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly ‘Donald’ below her waist, mimicking pubic hair. The letter concludes: ‘Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.’” Epstein was close friend and business associate of Wexner and fixture at the lingerie line’s fashion shows.
The late financier was arrested for sex trafficking of minors in 2019 and died under mysterious circumstances while in custody weeks later. His death was ruled a suicide but has long been the subject of conspiracy theories given his ties to powerful government officials, including Trump and President Bill Clinton.
The MAGA backlash stems from Attorney General Pam Bondi‘s decision not to release the Epstein investigation files in full. Bondi’s move opened the floodgates on a news cycle that has put Trump on the wrong side of some of his most ardent followers. Many famous backers of Trump including Tucker Carlson, Roseanne Barr and Steve Bannon appear to have turned on the president in recent days over the White House’s handling of the Epstein files. Others like Megyn Kelly and Theo Von have been more muted in their criticism but still skeptical and have spent hours on the subject on their podcasts and platforms.
“Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker,” he wrote. In an previous post, he wrote: “We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening,” the president wrote. “Let’s not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.”
On Wednesday, the Justice Department fired Maurene Comey, the top prosecutor in the 2019 Epstein case, adding fuel to a story that doesn’t appear to be dying down.
Even after his first stint in jail, Epstein enjoyed long-cultivated relationships within the government — both U.S. and Israeli — as well as New York media circles, academia and even Hollywood, which allowed him entry into events where the richest and most powerful people converge. The Justice Department and FBI said in a memo last week that they found no evidence that Epstein kept an “incriminating ‘client list.’” The memo added: “There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
But Epstein certainly kept a little black book that became part of the public record following his first arrest. Among the Hollywood notables whose contact information appeared in the book were Alec Baldwin and Kevin Spacey. Spacey, has called on the White House to release the full Epstein files, saying he has nothing to hide
In 2015, Gawker published the flight logs from Epstein’s private jet, which showed that Clinton had flown on the private aircraft dubbed the Lolita Express.