Trump’s deadline call to Rupert Murdoch from Air Force One demanding he kill WSJ story on Epstein birthday note

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Donald Trump reportedly called Rupert Murdoch from Air Force One, urging the media mogul to kill the Wall Street Journal’s then-pending report about a birthday note he allegedly wrote to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The phone call is part of a new report from the WSJ, detailing the inside story of how the Trump administration scrambled to handle the Epstein files fallout during a chaotic summer, reportedly characterized by “disorganization,” high-stakes strategy meetings in the Situation Room, “finger-pointing,” and a series of “unforced errors.”

On July 17, the WSJ published its bombshell report about a “bawdy” note allegedly signed by Trump, which features a sexually suggestive drawing and a 50th-birthday wish to the sex-offender financier that read, in part, “may every day be another wonderful secret.”

In the days before the WSJ published the report, Trump and his team desperately tried to get Murdoch and his paper to stop the story from seeing the light of day, the outlet reports.



 
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