Donald Trump Sues Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch for $10 Billion Over Epstein Report
Donald Trump sued the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch for $10 billion, alleging defamation over a false report linking him to Jeffrey Epstein.
U.S. President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Friday against the Wall Street Journal and its parent company, including Rupert Murdoch, demanding at least $10 billion in damages. The suit comes in response to a report claiming Trump’s name appeared in a 2003 birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein that allegedly included a “lewd painting” and references to shared secrets.
According to Reuters, the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Miami, names Murdoch, Dow Jones, News Corporation CEO Robert Thomson, and two WSJ reporters as defendants. Trump claims the article defamed him and caused significant financial and reputational harm.
Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, died by suicide in a New York jail cell in 2019. His case has fueled numerous conspiracy theories, especially among Trump supporters, who believe powerful elites’ ties to Epstein were deliberately concealed.
Trump has stated that he cut ties with Epstein before the financier’s legal troubles became public in 2006. He has strongly denied any connection to the birthday message and labeled the WSJ article as “false and malicious.”
Before filing the suit, Trump warned Rupert Murdoch that legal action was coming. In a post on his platform, Truth Social, he wrote, “We have just filed a powerful lawsuit against all involved in publishing the fake, vile, defamatory, and fake news story.”
In response, a spokesperson for Dow Jones defended the publication, stating, “We stand by the accuracy and fairness of our reporting and will vigorously defend against this lawsuit.”
The complaint also claims the alleged birthday note is “fabricated” and that the article lacks any credible evidence to support the existence or content of such a message.
However, for Trump’s defamation case to succeed, he will have to prove that the defendants acted with “actual malice”—meaning they knowingly published false information or showed reckless disregard for the truth.
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