General Discussion

Matthew Chapman
September 8, 2025 8:15PM ET

... "Elie, I don't know, the signature looks pretty close to Donald Trump's signature, if not exactly like Donald Trump's signature," said anchor Jake Tapper. "Maybe not the ones in the ones in the pictures that Taylor Budowich tweeted out. But here's one from, [a letter] President Trump did ... in 2015. I mean, it's pretty identical. Is this going to make Trump's defamation case against News Corp more difficult?"

"It's going to be way more difficult, Jake, now," confirmed Honig.

"If you look at Donald Trump's actual complaint here, his lawsuit, he alleges, first that the letter is, and I quote, 'nonexistent,'" said Honig. "Well, now we know that that's off the table. The letter certainly does exist. And now Trump's going to have to make a fallback argument that we're hearing that, well, maybe this is not his signature. But again, if you look back at The Wall Street Journal, they hedged on that. The original article by The Wall Street Journal does not say definitively this is his signature. In fact, the article actually says the circumstances around the creation of the letter are unclear.

"So Trump has to prove that A) the reporting was false, and that B) it was knowingly or recklessly false. And I think this was a long shot to begin with. And I think the appearance of this letter has made it even longer of a shot" ...

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