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NEW: WSJ Immediately Regrets Trump Hit Piece As Readers Unsubscribe In Droves

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Knives are out for the Wall Street Journal after it published a new report Thursday evening alleging President Donald Trump was the author of a “bawdy” birthday card sent to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.

Responses ranged from nonplussed to apoplectic as supporters of Trump processed the story, which claimed that Trump submitted a crude doodle of a nude woman — and signed his first name in a scribble to mimic public hair — that wished the future sex offender a “wonderful secret” every day in the years ahead.

The explicit story named Trump and a handful of rich businessmen and semi-famous socialites who allegedly submitted their own letters, including Les Wexner, the Bath and Body Works founder, whose money was managed by Epstein, and attorney Alan Dershowitz, who represented Epstein in his 2007 case.

Readers declared themselves sickened by the piece’s content and promised to cancel their subscriptions.

“Just way too much money for that level of quality,” wrote Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway.

Congressman Randy Fine (R-FL) stormed out of the gate immediately after the article was published at 6:45 p.m. and within hours had promised to file legislation “to end the House of Representatives subscription contract with the WSJ.”

“Americans shouldn’t be paying for disgusting and filthy rags,” he said in a statement on X.

Others shared the notes they submitted to the Journal, accompanying their canceled credit card numbers.

“I regret to inform you that due to your lack of journalistic ethics, extreme bias, and perpetuation of a series of propaganda hoaxes, I have cancelled my decades long subscription, and those for my company and staff,” one X user wrote.

Another stated: “Canceling WSJ subscription today. After 35 years. It’s a shadow of what it once was anyhow.”

In its own way, the Journal’s story offered Trump a lifeline after weeks of flailing responses to outrage over the Epstein investigation and the U.S. Justice Department’s decision to close the case without further revelations.

Laura Loomer, the far-right media influencer who has posted some of the most incendiary criticisms of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi over the past two weeks, said she was calling “bulls**t” on the Journal’s reporting.

“It’s totally fake,” she wrote online. “Everyone who actually KNOWS President Trump knows he doesn’t type letters. He writes notes in big black Sharpie.”

Even frenemy Elon Musk harbored doubts about the letter, which was packaged in a leather-bound book and compiled by convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.

“It really doesn’t sound like something Trump would say [to be honest],” he replied to another X user Thursday night.

Keeping his focus on the WSJ as a common enemy, Trump announced Thursday night he would be suing the outlet and possibly its owner, Rupert Murdoch, in a separate personal suit. Trump also claimed to have “personally” warned Murdoch about allowing his paper to run the story, and the two were seen together at the FIFA Club World Cup in box seats on Sunday, Politico reported.

The president paired his lawsuit with a sliver of new hope for transparency advocates when he directed Bondi to ask a federal judge about the possibility of releasing grand jury testimony and investigative files from the government’s case against Epstein, who died in 2019.