The president threatened to sue the newspaper and News Corp for publishing an article about a letter bearing his name that was included in a 2003 birthday album for Jeffrey Epstein.

Donald Trump said on Thursday he had directed his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to seek the release of grand jury testimony related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking case as he sought to tamp down controversy over a story that he allegedly contributed a sketch of a naked woman to Epstein’s 50th birthday album.