Steve Bannon has launched a fiery counterattack over the Wall Street Journal’s explosive report tying President Donald Trump to a vulgar birthday gift allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein—calling it part of a calculated Rupert Murdoch-led plot to destroy Trump’s presidency.
Speaking on his War Room podcast just hours before Trump filed a staggering $10 billion libel suit against the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Rupert Murdoch, and the reporters behind the piece, Bannon pulled no punches.
“The Murdochs hate Trump. They want him gone,” Bannon said. “Last night, we saw it in all its ugliness.”
He claimed that the Journal is the “neoliberal neocon” weapon in Murdoch’s media arsenal—used specifically to target Trump—unlike Fox News, which he called “for RINOs,” and the New York Post, which he described as “more populist.”
Bannon alleged that senior sources close to Trump confirmed the letter was fabricated, and described the article as a coordinated “kill shot” designed to humiliate the president and fracture his support base.
“This was meant to destroy him. A phony letter. A phony drawing. A phony message,” Bannon insisted, referencing the WSJ’s report that Trump once sent Epstein a typewritten birthday letter featuring a naked sketch and the message, ‘Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.’
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