Last week, Donald Trump went to war with the Wall Street Journal, which is owned by the Murdoch family. The Murdochs have helped prop up Trump for years, even if Rupert Murdoch reportedly isn’t a huge fan of Trump on a personal level. The Murdochs – like many other influential billionaires – think they can control Trump and keep him on a leash. I have my doubts. In any case, the reason why Trump went to war with the Murdochs is because the WSJ published his “bawdy letter” to Jeffrey Epstein, for Epstein’s 50th birthday. The letter was included in a private book compiled by none other than Ghislaine Maxwell. Well, Trump is now suing the Murdochs for $10 billion. LOL.
Donald Trump sued Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters on Friday over an explosive report that the president wrote a 2003 birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that contained suggestive language. Trump claims the Wall Street Journal and its journalists defamed him and has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Trump is seeking “not less than $10 billion” on two counts of defamation, for at least $20 billion total. That’s the same amount of damages he sought in his amended lawsuit against CBS over the editing of a “60 Minutes” interview.
“We have just filed a POWERHOUSE Lawsuit against everyone involved in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory, FAKE NEWS ‘article’ in the useless ‘rag’ that is, The Wall Street Journal,” Trump wrote Friday on Truth Social. “I hope Rupert and his ‘friends’ are looking forward to the many hours of depositions and testimonies they will have to provide in this case.”
In an interview with the paper, the president denied writing the letter to the disgraced financier. “This is not me,” Trump said. “This is a fake thing.”
The lawsuit repeats the claim that the letter is “a fake,” notes that it was not published along with the story, and says the article does not offer “any proof that President Trump has anything to do with it.”
In a statement, a spokesperson for Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, said: “We have full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reporting, and will vigorously defend against any lawsuit.”
Some of the media-watchers said, before Trump’s lawsuit, that WSJ wouldn’t have gone this hard and published Trump’s letter if they didn’t have even more information about Trump and Epstein’s ties. Like, if they only had the letter, the Wall Street Journal’s editors might have pulled their punches. Instead, it feels like this was the first part of a larger exposé on the larger Trump-Epstein ties. The Murdochs would know – Rupert was photographed with Ghislaine a few times, and I have no doubt that there’s some compromising information on Rupert’s ties to Epstein and Maxwell as well.
Meanwhile, one of Epstein’s victims, Maria Farmer, is being discussed again. When she reported Epstein’s sketchy behavior towards her and her younger sister, she told the authorities that Trump was always around and his behavior was really sleazy too.
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This feels like an Austin Powers scene: I shall sue you for $100 million, trillion, bazillion dollars! 😂
Perfect reference! 👏
I thought the exact same thing! Can you imagine Trump with his pinky finger to his mouth saying “I want all the zeros”.
It is too cynical for me to firmly stand in the “bite each other’s d!ck off” camp?
Getting the popcorn. I will walk back any Murdoch hexes I’ve done if he goes through with this and they go through with the biting.
Ghislaine probably knows the Murdochs through her father, who owned a media company. I assume she is in possession of the book and this was a little reminder to Trump that she is getting inpatient about her pardon.
My guess is, (hang on, adjusting my tin foil tiara), Felon 47 has become too much of a liability, with his rapidly declining mental state, and he is becoming a bigger loose cannon, btwn his posting and believing his own bullshit. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Vance has “gone on vacation” for a month out of the country. I think Murdock and his gang are going to try and take down F47, and that part of the MAGAt cult to install Vance, who is closer to their Project 2025 ideology and will be more controllable.
Ok, my tiara is back in the Dollar Store plastic bin now. You may resume all normal discussion 😄
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It is exactly this. I don’t know whether he has become too much of a liability — or whether this was the plan all along. The Epstein stuff, the sexual assaults, the underaged girls — this was all known for years. It’s just that now the puppet masters (Thiel, Murdoch, Harlan Crow, etc.) have decided to pull those particular strings, and Don will not be able to do anything about it.
What’s really, REALLY gross is how quickly all the Donnie sycophants will jump ship and do what the oligarchs tell them to do.
I’ve been reading variations on this theme & it is intriguing. Can you imagine, though, what secrets & sh*t trump will spew on his way out? ‘Cause you know he’ll go down swinging. 😈
@Beanie — my schadens are just WAITING for the day this happens — I hope he burns it all to the ground on his way out the door — his meeting with the President of the Philippines today was just unhinged, no one can listen to him and believe he is fit to govern.
I hope he destroys Vance, MTG and his entire cabinet on the way out.
Well now isn’t this going against the hand that feeds you? Murdoch was a BIG supporter of trump with lots of money and glowing articles. Yet here is Trump going to poke the bear that probably knows where all the skeletons are buried. Typical trump gets mad and dues without looking at the bigger picture.
sues not dues. It’s a rough morning here at home lol.
Yes, I’d assumed the story about the letter was a warning that they had way, way more info on the whole situation and a reminder about all those skeletons in the closet Murdoch knows about. And they ran it in the WSJ which is their more “legit” publication so I’d assume they also did their homework and know it’s real, versus dropping implications in the Post.
Definitely. There’s no way the Journal doesn’t have this shit buttoned up.
There is no way the WSJ ran any part of this without having every single “i” dotted and “t” crossed. And I dont see Murdoch settling with trump to make this go away. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was even part of the plan, because they can get a lot out in discovery.
Big supporter?! Murdoch is the puppet master of our electoral process.
Absolutely! Fox is literally the propaganda arm helping to destroy America/democracy. Until you’ve met someone completely brainwashed by Fox you can’t understand the breadth and depth of their influence.
Right. Murdoch was not a “supporter” of Trump. He was controlling him all along. Trump doesn’t have a prayer once they decide they’re done with him, which appears to be now.
Hmm. Suing over a letter published. Would this be similar to Meghan’s lawsuit against the DM. My understanding was that laws about copyright were different in the US than the UK. So publishing the letter in the wsj in the states is not the same. I have no idea though really. And this is about defamation and maybe fraud since he’s saying he never wrote it? May he lose. Who’s gonna pay for this lawsuit anyways?
It’s very different, she had to pursue a copyright angle because a private communication with her dad was deemed legitimate public interest.
Truth is a defense against defamation, which is what is alleged here, and I believe I saw it’s going before an Obama appointed judge. This is him doing his only thing, which is tying up his enemy with ridiculous court cases and hoping it either scares them into folding, or drags out until they run out of money. Murdoch has more than him, has actually competent lawyers, and now can do all kinds of discovery. This is to make him look strong to his idiots who definitely don’t understand court.
I think US law is different to British law.
My understanding is that WSJ didn’t publish the actual letter but just described what was in the letter. If the DM had just did the same, Meghan wouldn’t have had a case.
Yes they didn’t publish the actual letter.
But if Durbin’s letter to Trump’s DOJ is well-sourced, which I suspect it is, and 1,000 Fed agents were tasked with flagging the Epstein files for Trump’s name, then we can probably expect a lot of leaks going forward.
It still baffles my mind why he would need that many agents to do a task that Ctrl +F or even AI could likely do.
Ah got it. It wasn’t verbatim. And please yes let there be many leaks going forward. And can we can get some dirt on Vance as well. Sink them both plz.
This should be interesting I wonder who is going to blink first, is this a Clash of the Titans moment, or the snake eating its tail
So my question…are we as taxpayers paying for all these lawsuits or is Trump responsible for the attorney fees (and if that’s the case, good luck getting paid)? Also, who is getting the proceeds, ie the $16M CBS settlement? Does Trump get to keep if he used government paid attorneys?
It should be personal money, but this is trump we’re talking about so who knows?
Yes, Maria Farmer is saying she overheard a conversation between Trump and Epstein about “this one’s not for you” and underage girls. It sounded like the girl in question was too old for Trump.
Murdoch is a terrible person, but he is getting ready to take the tangerine terror out politically. Mango didn’t handle his cult with enough care when they blew up over the Epstein cover-up. His arrogance made him vulnerable and Murdoch is going to pounce. The WSJ wouldn’t have published the original article without mounds of substantiated proof. Luring the mango moron into a lawsuit will bring even more proof in terms of discovery. The 🐍 is eating its own tail.
Yeah I’m sure he didn’t love that he had to publish this but the fact that he did shows a modicum of integrity that’s absent from many media outlets who are currently folding under the pressure from Trump.
I’ll give a tiny clap for that.
Oh no. This definitely does NOT arise from any integrity on Murdoch’s part, and Trump couldn’t have done anything differently to get a better outcome. No, no. This was the plan the whole time. They’re not standing up to Trump. They’re taking him out, Manchurian Candidate-style.
Yeaahhh no. Rupert is getting revenge for the near-billion dollar lawsuit Trump already made him lose (Dominion) and the billion dollar lawsuit he’s also about to lose (Smartmatic).
I always knew that Trump is a creepy, pervy predator but there is so much 💩 coming out now that it seems like he went bankrupt six times because he spent all his time assaulting women and girls. And Epstein actually thought that Trump was worse than him when it came to predatory behavior. Maybe Trump isn’t in the Epstein files. Maybe Epstein is mentioned in the Trump files.
Wonder why Rupert is going after Trump, like this. The blowback might be uncontainable.
Kaiser, feel free to delete if you’re gonna add a separate post about this but my bro just sent me a Daily Fail link that said Ghislaine Maxwell is set to meet with Pam Bondi next week. I have a few ideas but I’m curious what C/Bers think Trump’s play is here.
I saw that too. I think it’s actually one of Trump’s personal lawyers. They’re obviously looking for a deal which exculpates Trump. A pardon, or at least a commutation, is on the table. This type of meeting would never be allowed if we still had the rule of law.
They probably want her to go on the record and state she never met Trump and Epstein never met him. Those photos in this post are all FAKE NEWS!!!!!
(I mean…..it sounds ridiculous but it could be it.)
I also read that a reduced sentence is an option if she agrees to become a cooperating witness with the justice department. Also, this hasn’t gotten much coverage but apparently she is appealing to the SC?!?
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/supreme-court-ghislaine-maxwell-appeal-epstein-trump-rcna220042
What’s insane is that for at least a portion of his calcified base, they’d probably believe her if she said Trump was never into shifty behavior with underage girls. Sigh. I’m just hoping we can shave off 5-10% of his support.–I need to see this asshole polling at 30%.
Oh yeah, I’d imagine she will say whatever she needs to about Trump being innocent to get a reduced sentence. And again, I will never not be furious over Maga-type people lecturing me about child trafficking while supporting Trump.
There is no way there isn’t a deal being worked out. It’s so blatantly obvious and the cult won’t care…she will say that their leader was never really friends with Epstein, he never hung out with the girls, etc. etc. and she’ll get out early or be fully pardoned. If that link about the Supreme Court is true just don’t be surprised if they overturn her conviction. We live in a damn banana republic.
But at this point, even the base won’t buy it. Even they will **flip out** if he pardons her. They’re flipping out already about the lack of files.
And who’s to say she’ll take the risk of perjuring herself for someone who was all “I don’t know her” when she needed him? It’s not like she can trust whoever promises her she’ll have immunity.
Absolutely pure corruption, all around.
@FYI — she can’t trust anyone — with the developments of the last two weeks, I don’t know how she sleeps.
I also saw somewhere Vance had a secret meeting with Murdoch right before WSJ dropped the story. Interesting things going on
I can’t get my head around who are the bigger idiots here. Trumpers for making this Epstein stuff their whole existence and believing that pedo was actually going to follow through, or Donnie and his minions were going to get away with pulling the wool over their eyes.
I don’t understand why the media isn’t trying harder to get more of this info. Maybe they are, but I keep hearing about “The Epstein files” being referred to as a rightwing conspiracy theory, which it is, but it’s not JUST that. It’s a very REAL case. They went to jail. They have info on these two going back to 2005/2006 and TWENTY years later nothing has been made public? Ghislaine was convicted in 2020, on what and with what proof? It is IMPOSSIBLE no one else was implicated and we’re just going to let this die? No. This matters. This is something we should know and we cannot let it go until we do. I don’t care who is implicated. May anyone who participated in these crimes be found out and then rot in hell.
I’m starting to think these lawsuits are trump’s way of getting bribes. Which is unnecessary, as the Supreme Court recently ruled that bribes are OK. 🙄
Please share this Rolling Stone article from 2016 far and wide, particularly with older gens and any Maga fans. It’s about Trump’s involvement with Miss TEEN America pageant. Point out that no one involved with the article was sued for defamation. Presumably because all the accusations and assertions are true.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/a-timeline-of-donald-trumps-creepiness-while-he-owned-miss-universe-191860/
If it looks, walks, talks and acts like a rich predatory creep with a special interest in TEEN GIRLS – it’s Epstein adjacent and involved in a cover up. Get this everywhere. keep up the momentum. Burn it all down.