Trump has railed against the Journal’s reporting, claiming he had nothing to do with the reported 2003 letter (which featured a drawing of a naked woman) and insisting it was “a fake thing.”
Newsom responded by sharing a screenshot of a 2019 Washington Post article about a sketch that Trump had once made of the Manhattan skyline — complete with his signature — that was up for auction.
Flipping Trump’s own words back on him, Newsom captioned the post: “I never wrote a picture in my life.”
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Trump, amid growing backlash from some in his MAGA base over his administration’s stonewalling of the release of the Epstein files, has vowed to sue the Journal over the story.