President Trump filed a civil lawsuit against the NewsCorp, Rupert Murdoch and others over an explosive Jeffrey Epstein story.
President Donald Trump on Friday followed through on his threat to sueover a Wall Street Journal story revealing the details of a „bawdy“ letter Trump sent the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The lawsuit has five defendants, including the Journal’s parent company NewsCorp and its founder Rupert Murdoch.The Context
Trump has raged against the Journal and Murdoch since the publication reported on Thursday that Trump sent Epstein a letter for his 50th birthday.
According to the report, Trump’s note to Epstein featured several lines of typewritten text surrounded by the outline of a naked woman, sketched in marker, and included Trump’s signature.
„Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret“, the letter said, according to the report.
Trump told the Journal in a Tuesday interview that he would file a lawsuit if it published its story about the letter, which he said was „fake“, and added in a Truth Social post Thursday evening that the newspaper had put out „defamatory lies“ about him.Who Are The Defendants In Trump’s Lawsuit?
The five defendants named in Trump’s lawsuit are: Murdoch, NewsCorp, Dow Jones and Journal reporters Joe Palazzolo and Khadeeja Safdar.
