Donald Trump Jr. Rushes to Defend Dad After WSJ’s Epstein Report: ‘I’ve Never Seen Him Doodle Once’
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President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., rushed to his father’s defense in the wake of a Wall Street Journal exclusive Friday morning, arguing he’s never seen his dad “doodle” — despite reports of the contrary.
“My father has a very specific way of speaking,” Trump Jr. posted to X Friday morning. “People all over the world have mimicked it for decades. The insanity written in the Wall Street Journal, AIN’T IT and everyone knows it. Also in 47 years I’ve never seen him doodle once. Give me a break with the fake ‘journalisming.'”
The X rant came in response to a Journal article published Thursday, which reported Trump once sent Epstein a letter to mark his 50th birthday that contained a lewd drawing of a nude woman.
Despite claims by his son and the president himself, Trump has actually doodled before, as several of his drawings from the 1990s and early 2000s resurfaced Thursday, including a cityscape that was reportedly drawn a year after the Epstein letter was sent.
Don Jr.’s tirade was in reply to a post by Federalist co-founder Sean Davis, who claimed he asked X’s AI bot Grok to find whether President Trump had used the word “enigma” in speeches before. While Grok turned up no results, Davis’ post was slapped with a community note and multiple reply posts with links to video clips showing Trump has indeed used the phrase before.
The Journal’s exclusive reporting comes as the nation’s curiosity over the “Epstein Files” is piqued. Serious questions from even Trump’s most loyal media surrogates representing the MAGA movement, now turning on the Trump administration, in particular the DOJ led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a critical manner, in a way which has rarely been seen.
The president is clearly ticked off over the WSJ report, posting his intent to pursue legal action against the publication and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, on Truth Social:
I told Rupert Murdoch it was a Scam, that he shouldn’t print this Fake Story. But he did, and now I’m going to sue his ass off, and that of his third rate newspaper.
