Wall Street Journal banned from Trump's Scotland trip over Epstein story
Trump on Friday sued the Wall Street Journal's parent company, accusing the newspaper of libel after it reported that the president contributed a drawing of a naked woman as part of a bawdy birthday gift for Epstein in 2003. Epstein, a convicted sex offender, died in jail in 2019 of an apparent suicide.
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