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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump files $10 billion lawsuit against Murdoch, WSJ and NewsCorp over Epstein birthday card expose

President Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal’s parent companies News Corp and Dow Jones following the newspaper’s publication of the president’s alleged birthday letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in Miami targets Murdoch and News Corp executive Robert Thomson as well as the two WSJ journalists whose bylines appeared on the story.

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