U.S. President Donald Trump left after signing the “Genius Act” at a ceremony in the White House East Room in Washington, DC on July 18, 2025.
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president Donald Trump On Friday, he made a threat to Sue Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch After him Wall Street Journal A post says Trump sent his friends at the time Jeffrey Epstein A letter of “bawdy” Epstein’s 50th anniversary.
Trump angrily denied writing the letter, and he was seeking compensation for no less than $10 billion in compensation, alleging defamation.
The lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida was called the defendant, his company Murdoch News Group Its CEO Robert Thomson, magazine publisher Dow Jones & Co., and two journalists who wrote about the articles published Thursday night.
The lawsuit comes as Trump faces increasing pressure to get the Justice Department to release files of an investigation about Epstein, who committed suicide in August 2019 after being arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges.
The journal’s article says Trump’s alleged letter to Epstein in 2003 was a document reviewed by criminal investigators who eventually filed a criminal case against Epstein and his convicted prosecutor Ghislaine Maxwell, who reportedly solicited the letter from the president.
“We just filed a powerful lawsuit against all involved people involved in posting articles in the “useless “rag” of false, malicious, slanderous, fake news, The Wall Street Journal,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social Post on Friday. ”
Rupert Murdoch, former executive chairman of Fox Corp, listens to U.S. President Donald Trump addressing reporters at the White House Oval Office in Washington, DC on February 3, 2025.
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“Defendant Khadeeja Safdar and Joseph Palazzolo co-wrote and published an article focused on President Trump, which falsely claimed that he wrote, drew and signed a card, hoped for late, and was completely lost – and totally shamed – Jeffrey Epstein’s happy fifty birthday.”
“Try and inseparably tie President Trump with Epstein, defendant Safda and
Palazzolo mistakenly claims that the letter’s mean language is included in the hand-painted
The lawsuit says.
“What’s worse, defendants Safdar and Palazzolo mistakenly stated that President Trump drew the breasts of a naked woman and signed his name “Donald” under her waist, “imitating the pubic hair.”
“Although the standards of journalistic ethics and accurate reporting have encountered obvious failures,
Defendant Dow Jones and News Corp. – Under the guidance of defendants Murdoch and Thomson
The lawsuit says false, slanderous and vicious statements made to the world were written by “reporters.”
Trump released the Truth earlier on Friday about the alleged truth, saying: “I look forward to Rupert Murdoch’s testimony and his “trash heap” newspaper WSJ in the lawsuit against him. It will be a fun experience!!!”
CNBC asked Dow Jones for comment on the lawsuit.
