U.S. President Donald Trump leaves after signing the “GENIUS Act” into regulation throughout a ceremony within the East Room of the White Home July 18, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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President Donald Trump on Friday adopted via on his menace to sue media mogul Rupert Murdoch after his Wall Street Journal printed an article saying that Trump despatched Jeffrey Epstein a “bawdy” letter for Epstein’s 50th birthday.
Court docket information present that Trump filed a lawsuit alleging libel towards Murdoch, the Journal’s writer, Dow Jones, and the reporters who wrote the article in federal court docket for the Southern District of Florida.
“I sit up for getting Rupert Murdoch to testify in my lawsuit towards him and his ‘pile of rubbish’ newspaper, the WSJ. That might be an attention-grabbing expertise!!!” Trump wrote in a Reality Social publish earlier Friday.
Former Government Chairman of Fox Corp Rupert Murdoch listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters within the Oval Workplace of the White Home on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Trump on Thursday evening had angrily denied writing the letter to Epstein in 2003.
“The Wall Road Journal printed a FAKE letter, supposedly to Epstein,” Trump wrote in a Reality Social publish that night.
“These aren’t my phrases, not the best way I speak. Additionally, I do not draw photos. I informed Rupert Murdoch it was a Rip-off, that he should not print this Pretend Story. However he did, and now I will sue his ass off, and that of his third charge newspaper.”
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