Harrisburg: US President Donald Trump says he will sue the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal for a story claiming he wrote a cryptic letter – with an “outline of a naked woman” – to now-convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for the late financier’s 50th birthday.

Meanwhile, as the furore over the Epstein saga grew, especially among MAGA supporters, Trump reversed course and asked his attorney-general to release more documents related to the case, pending court approval.

The Journal reported Trump had signed a letter in a leather-bound book organised by Epstein’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003, and that the book formed part of the files examined by the Justice Department during its sex-trafficking investigation of Epstein and Maxwell.

Trump’s letter was “framed by the outline of a naked woman”, the newspaper reported, including small arcs depicting her breasts. The text reportedly took the form of an imagined conversation between the two men.