US EditionDonald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show
UNITED STATES, JUL 21 – Trump claims the Wall Street Journal published a false report about a 2003 letter to Epstein and seeks $10 billion in damages for alleged defamation and reputational harm.
- President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit in Miami federal court last Friday against The Wall Street Journal and its owners.
- On Sunday, JD Vance traveled to southwest Montana near Dillon to meet Rupert Murdoch, and hours later the Journal published the contested report.
- The 18-page lawsuit names two Wall Street Journal reporters, Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and Robert Thomson as defendants.
- Denying the report, President Donald Trump said on Truth Social it was `false, malicious, and defamatory`.
- Warning of a legal marathon, President Donald Trump said he characterized the suit as a `powerhouse Lawsuit` and hopes Murdoch and his 'friends' face `many hours of depositions and testimonies`.
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President Donald Trump is suing the publisher and owner of the Wall Street Journal and seeking damages of $10 billion for defamation.Last week, the paper published an article describing a letter Trump sent to disgraced, self-styled financier Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003. That letter reportedly included a lewd drawing. The president says — without evidence — that he didn't write the letter. The Journal's publisher says they will …
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