Posted on 07/28/2025 2:35:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Trump has struggled to contain political fallout from his administration's handling of the Epstein case and reports about his relationship with the late billionaire have persisted throughout the controversy.
President Donald Trump has sought a court-ordered deposition of Rupert Murdoch as part of his ongoing defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
The president specifically asked that the court set the timeline for Murdoch's deposition to 15 days, Reuters reported.
Trump has struggled to contain political fallout from his administration's handling of the Epstein case and reports about his relationship with the late billionaire have persisted throughout the controversy. The Wall Street Journal, for its part, recently published an article about a 2003 birthday card sent to Epstein that allegedly bore Trump's name.
Trump promptly condemned the story and filed suit against the paper, which Murdoch owns. Though formerly somewhat aligned, the pair have long since broken with one another, largely due to Trump's high-profile attacks on Fox News, another of Murdoch's networks, over what he perceived to be an editorial bias against him.
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“Trump has struggled to contain political fallout from his administration’s handling of the Epstein case”
The only political fallout has been the spectacle of Democrats making themselves look like idiots. The guy died 6 years ago. “Epstein Epstein Epstein” is the new “Russia Russia Russia”.
“...reports about his relationship with the late billionaire have persisted throughout the controversy.”
I don’t know about John Solomon’s website. That statement is a crock. I have to admit, Bondi’s handling of the case is puzzlingly incompetent. Beyond understanding for a serious person to do.
Didn’t Trump call for release of the files during the campaign?
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