U.S. President Donald Trump leaves aft signing the “GENIUS Act” into instrumentality during a ceremonial successful the East Room of the White House July 18, 2025 successful Washington, DC.
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President Donald Trump connected Friday followed done connected his menace to writer media mogul Rupert Murdoch aft his Wall Street Journal published an nonfiction saying that Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a "bawdy" missive for Epstein's 50th birthday, courts records show.
Trump filed a suit related to alleged libel, battle oregon slander against Murdoch, the Journal's publisher, Dow Jones & Co., and the 2 reporters who wrote the nonfiction successful national tribunal for the Southern District of Florida, according to that court's docket.
The civilian ailment was not instantly available.
"I look guardant to getting Rupert Murdoch to attest successful my suit against him and his 'pile of garbage' newspaper, the WSJ. That volition beryllium an absorbing experience!!!" Trump wrote successful a Truth Social station earlier Friday.
Former Executive Chairman of Fox Corp Rupert Murdoch listens arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters successful the Oval Office of the White House connected February 03, 2025 successful Washington, DC.
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Trump connected Thursday nighttime had angrily denied penning the missive to Epstein successful 2003.
"The Wall Street Journal printed a FAKE letter, supposedly to Epstein," Trump wrote successful a Truth Social station that evening.
"These are not my words, not the mode I talk. Also, I don't gully pictures. I told Rupert Murdoch it was a Scam, that helium shouldn't people this Fake Story. But helium did, and present I'm going to writer his ass off, and that of his 3rd complaint newspaper."
CNBC has requested remark from the White House and Dow Jone astir the tribunal filing.
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