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Trump officially sues Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch over Epstein story
Just the News ^ | 7/18/25 | Misty Severi

Posted on 07/18/2025 4:33:49 PM PDT by CFW

President Donald Trump on Friday officially sued the Wall Street Journal, its owner Rupert Murdoch and some of its staff for publishing its story on the president and Jeffrey Epstein, fulfilling a promise he made Thursday night.

Trump made the promise in an angry social media post, where he claimed the story was "fake" and that the birthday card the outlet claimed he had sent to Epstein for his 50th birthday did not even sound like him.

The text of the libel lawsuit, which was filed in federal court for the Southern District of Florida, was not immediately available, per CNBC.

The story claimed Trump had contributed to former Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell's 50th birthday project for the late financier in 2003, which consisted of notes from close friends. The letter Trump allegedly sent was bawdy and concluded with the words, "H

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: defamation; epstein; epsteindistraction; epsteinsmear; lawsuit; nevertrumperssad; trump; wrapupsmear; wsj; yellowjournalism
Here is a link to the complaint:

Trump v Dow Jones

1 posted on 07/18/2025 4:33:49 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

oops. My link didn’t work. Let me see what I can do.


2 posted on 07/18/2025 4:35:24 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW
Here it is:

Trump v Murdoch

3 posted on 07/18/2025 4:39:22 PM PDT by CFW
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May goodness and truth prevail here

May it be so!


4 posted on 07/18/2025 4:56:01 PM PDT by Sunsong
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Yesterday there was a headline “ Trump threatens to sue WSJ”

However Trump said he was going to sue them

Why do people underestimate Trump

If he says he’s going to do something he does it.

The editor and the writer are thinking ‘why did we think Trump is like Biden. Or Bush. Or Obama?”

Now they know- too late

Why didn’t they know it yesterday. I could have told them

Murdoch hates Trump. Now he has to live with him in court

He is very not happy

But he underestimates Trump too


5 posted on 07/18/2025 5:05:48 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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Go gettim’ Mr. President!


6 posted on 07/18/2025 8:13:47 PM PDT by gildafarrell (e)
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I hope DJT gets every dime.


7 posted on 07/19/2025 5:41:17 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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