US EditionTrump Seeks to Proceed with $10B Lawsuit over WSJ Story on Epstein's Birthday Book
Trump alleges The Wall Street Journal published a false story linking him to Jeffrey Epstein, seeking $10 billion for alleged financial and reputational harm.
- In July, President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over a July 17 article about a purported Epstein-linked letter, asking a judge in the Southern District of Florida to let the suit proceed.
- The Wall Street Journal reported a purported letter 'bearing Trump's name' compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell, but Trump denies authoring it, calling it 'This is a fake thing,' according to The Los Angeles Times.
- In their motion to dismiss, the Journal said its reporting was accurate, relying on official Epstein-related documents, and it will reply to Trump's October 20 opposition before Judge Darrin P. Gayles rules.
- No hearing date has been set as Trump's lawyers requested oral argument while legal experts say the lawsuit 'stands a really poor chance in court.'
- Politically, the lawsuit keeps President Donald Trump’s feud with Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the spotlight and tests press freedom as the House Oversight Committee released contested Epstein files in September.
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Trump seeks to proceed with $10B lawsuit over WSJ story on Epstein's birthday book
Lawyers for President Donald Trump are asking a federal judge in Florida to deny a request by the Wall Street Journal and its parent companies, Dow Jones and News Corp, to dismiss a $10 billion defamation lawsuit over the paper's…
Sydney Morning Herald
Trump says Murdoch can’t prove Epstein birthday note is real
President Donald Trump urged a judge to let him continue a $US10 billion libel lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch over a Wall Street Journal article claiming he sent a bawdy birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump lawyer makes stunning argument to discredit letter to Epstein in court
A lawyer for President Donald Trump argued Monday that a bawdy letter President Donald Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein – that was later released by a Republican-controlled House committee – could not be proven to be the same one described in a report from The Wall Street Journal, making it a...
Trump Says $10 Billion Libel Suit Against Murdoch Should Proceed
President Donald Trump urged a judge to let him continue a $10 billion libel lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch over a Wall Street Journal article claiming he sent a bawdy birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, saying the news outlet still hasn’t been able to prove the letter is real.
Trump lawyers target Murdoch’s 'mean-spirited' Wall Street Journal in Epstein lawsuit
President Donald Trump wants a federal judge to allow his defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal to go forward because he says the newspaper's 2003 letter linking him to the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was “deliberate and malicious," Newsweek reports.Trump also says he sho...
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