President Donald Trump filed a $10 million lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch on Friday, a day after the newspaper published an article reporting on his ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The lawsuit is related to the publication of a letter Trump allegedly sent to the late Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sex trafficking and child abuse.

The Republican leader had threatened on Thursday to take the publication to court and a day later made good on his warning, including the two writers of the story in his complaint.

According to Trump, on his social network, Truth Social, this "historic legal action" is directed against all those involved in the "false, malicious, and defamatory" article.

The president He stressed that his lawsuit is being filed not only on his own behalf, “but also to continue standing up for ALL Americans who will no longer tolerate the abusive actions of the Fake News media.”

“I hope Rupert and his ‘friends’ look forward to the many hours of depositions and testimony they will have to offer in this case,” he concluded.

The WSJ reported Thursday that among the letters Epstein received for his 50th birthday in 2003 was one with Trump’s name and an outline drawing of a naked woman. That illustration outlined breasts and had the word Donald in the pubic hair area.

According to the newspaper, Epstein's former assistant, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for aiding the tycoon, collected letters from Trump and Epstein's associates to include in a gift album.

The alleged letter from now-President Trump contains the phrase: "Happy birthday. May each day be another wonderful secret."

The WSJ claims that, in an interview with Trump on Tuesday,He denied being the author of the letter and threatened to sue the media outlet if it published the article.

Its publication coincides with a time when the Epstein scandal has resurfaced in the US after the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) concluded in an investigation that the tycoon did not have a "list of famous clients" whom he blackmailed.

The FBI and the DOJ also confirmed Epstein's death by suicide - thus denying the conspiracy theory that he had been murdered to protect his acquaintances - and anticipated that they would not publish further investigations into the case.

The most staunch supporters of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement are dissatisfied with the findings of those investigations, as Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino promised to reveal "the truth" about the case before the start of this Administration in January.

The pressure received has led the president to authorize Bondi to release any additional "credible" files on the matter as long as the courts allow it, not without criticizing his followers for, in his opinion, having been "duped" by the Democrats.