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With his suit against Murdoch, Trump signals: No one is safe
The Washington Post ^ | July 24, 2025 5:00 a.m. EDT | Sarah Ellison and Scott Nover

Posted on 07/24/2025 10:50:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Throughout President Donald Trump’s political career, Rupert Murdoch has played the role of a scold and a cheerleader. He has been a target, and frequent beneficiary, of Trump’s whims. But Trump’s recent lawsuit against the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal tests their mutually beneficial bond.

On Friday, one day after the Journal published a story alleging that Trump wrote a “bawdy” birthday letter to financier and deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, Trump sued the Journal, the two authors of the story and a raft of corporate overseers including Murdoch, whose family trust controls the Journal’s parent company and that of its corporate sibling, Fox News.

To which Murdoch told associates: “I’m 94 years old and I will not be intimidated,” according to three people familiar with his comment who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to relay a private conversation.

Trump’s complaint, the latest in a flurry of suits against media companies, was filed in U.S. District Court in Miami and represents an escalation of the president’s multipronged war on the media.

But it crosses a new Rubicon. By suing the Wall Street Journal and Murdoch, Trump is lashing out at one of his most powerful media allies, a fellow billionaire who has known him for decades and has been one of his most influential advisers outside the White House.

That makes the suit — though derided by experts as weak on its legal justification — a clear warning shot for any journalistic entity that attempts to cover the president aggressively, media lawyers say. If the owner of the Wall Street Journal and Fox News isn’t safe from Trump’s litigation, no one is.

“This is an utterly baseless lawsuit that is meant to chill and punish aggressive news coverage...

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: enemieslist; enemyjournalists; sarahellison; scottnover; waposedition; wapotraitorsnotsafe

1 posted on 07/24/2025 10:50:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“No one is safe”?

Wait a minute.

PDJT is the victim here.


2 posted on 07/24/2025 10:54:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Post wrote a similar piece when Biden occupied the White House, when both criminal charges and civil suits were brought forth against the President and those who worked with him . . . didn’t they?


3 posted on 07/24/2025 10:56:27 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“No one is safe!”... ???

Nah. More like “No one is above the (libel) law.”

I thought the lefties were serious about paying lip service to that concept!


4 posted on 07/24/2025 10:59:36 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“though derided by experts as weak on its legal justification”

WTF?

This is a slam dunk win for POTUS.
Rupert gonna Pay Da Man!


5 posted on 07/24/2025 11:01:34 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Meanwhile, paging Mr. Bannon:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-said-stopped-hanging-131500803.html


6 posted on 07/24/2025 11:02:03 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“This is an utterly baseless lawsuit that is meant to chill and punish aggressive news coverage...”

No, it is meant to chill the lying and biased “reporting” that goes on 100% against non-liberals/commies.


7 posted on 07/24/2025 11:02:39 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

I feel safe except that I posted 100 videos of Biden falling down the stairs.


8 posted on 07/24/2025 11:11:34 AM PDT by brookwood (America Was Built By MS-13. We Are A Nation Of MS-13.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s right WP. Your not safe.


9 posted on 07/24/2025 11:21:45 AM PDT by Revel
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

‘No one is above the law. IF the WSJ did nothing wrong, they have nothing to fear.’

Wasn’t that your old talking point Alt Leftists?


10 posted on 07/24/2025 11:24:00 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Rupert is long time retired.
His leftist sons now run the operation.


11 posted on 07/24/2025 11:24:35 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He says he won’t be intimidated, but he could lose a lot of money. Someone needs to remind his sons that his “Fox” Empire is not as safe as they think, and if they keep putting their political needs ahead of their business needs, then they will soon lose it all.


12 posted on 07/24/2025 11:25:23 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: BenLurkin

My first thought when I first read the title,was that they are making it look like Pres. Trump is the one who said, “No one is safe.” Then they proceed to increase the rivalry and put Trump down.


13 posted on 07/24/2025 11:44:28 AM PDT by TurkeyLurkey ( )
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To: Zathras

Rupert is long time retired.

If Rupert is retired, why is he the one being sued? At least, the article quotes him as saying, "I will not be intimidated,", which seems to imply he is named in the suit.

14 posted on 07/24/2025 11:59:02 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"-Voltaire)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I referenced this before but it bears repeating.
After Deepak Chopra was slandered by Murdoch’s Weekly Standard saying he hired a prostitute several times, he took them to court. Article by writer Matt Labash. The San Francisco woman recanted and admitted she was paid to lie and she was never with Chopra. He won a $35 Million settlement. 1997.

As part of the revenge (which Chopra admitted went against his usual love thy neighbor mystical stance) he forced Murdoch to place a one page ad admitting to the total lies, in every one of the Murdoch magazines and papers at that time. Including unrelated subject ones.


15 posted on 07/24/2025 12:04:29 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

WaPo deflection from their role in the coup against PDJT.


16 posted on 07/24/2025 12:18:40 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In regards to the story there is no Murdock involved so he is just as safe as ever.

The warning was sent to Israel/Saudi Arabia and/or whoever pays for these campaigns, for that is what this is, its not a “story”, to be run.

Its media manipulation used as a weapon by foreign adversaries.


17 posted on 07/24/2025 1:50:04 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: BenLurkin

wapos thinks people should be safe to defame Trump


18 posted on 07/24/2025 2:25:34 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Macoozie

those nameless experts again


19 posted on 07/24/2025 2:26:48 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: BenLurkin

No one is safe from legal action.. …. You lie and defame folks you might not like what happens. Pretty simple.


20 posted on 07/24/2025 3:49:31 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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