President Donald Trump asked a federal court to expedite the deposition of Rupert Murdoch in his lawsuit over the Wall Street Journal’s report about the alleged birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein because of concerns the 94-year-old media titan either won’t live long enough to testify at a potential trial or might not be alive.
Trump swiftly filed a $10 billion defamation suit against the publication, its owner Murdoch, the paper’s parent company Dow Jones, and the two journalists who are bylined on the report, among others.
