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Trump sues Wall Street Journal and media
mogul Rupert Murdoch over reporting on
Epstein ties

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 7/20/2025 5:25:21 AM

President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch Friday, a day after the newspaper published a story reporting on his ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. The move came shortly after the Justice Department asked a federal court on Friday to unseal grand jury transcripts in Epstein’s sex trafficking case, as the administration seeks to contain the firestorm that erupted after it announced that it would not be releasing additional files from the case, despite previously pledging to do so. The controversy has created a major fissure between Trump and his loyal base,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: FJB 2022 23 24 7/20/2025 5:36:03 AM (No. 1979861)
Good, sue for every dime they have!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DW626 7/20/2025 5:54:14 AM (No. 1979863)
Discovery should be interesting & fun.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: petrichor 7/20/2025 6:45:15 AM (No. 1979868)
What does Taranto do at the WSJ? He used to have decent moral principles. Or so I thought.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: pc1eszm 7/20/2025 7:49:19 AM (No. 1979884)
I don’t think this will ever get to the point of discovery, although I wholeheartedly agree that it would be interesting. WSJ will settle, just like ABC and Paramount did. Trump’s library will be funded by TDS suffering idiots. How awesome is that!?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Strike3 7/20/2025 7:51:32 AM (No. 1979886)
Take that, Rupert, you big dummy. The first responsibility of "news" is to verify the truth before reporting it as truth.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: stablemoney 7/20/2025 9:45:20 AM (No. 1979926)
AP, there is no "major fissure between Trump and his loyal base". This kind of snark is why your reputation for honesty is nonexistent.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JrSample 7/20/2025 10:36:41 AM (No. 1979956)
It is amazing that these ''journalists'' delude themselves into believing that Trump [at the time a jet-setting billionaire] actually sat down and hand-made a birthday card for anyone. Since it was Ghislaine Maxwell who put together the birthday album it seems more likely that she had some of their staff do it. Trump may or may not have actually signed it ''Donald''. Would be interesting to have a handwriting expert examine it. Their falling out, over Epstein's creepy behavior towards underage female staff at Mar A Lago, and a business dispute, was in 2003 to 2004 timeframe. What is even more amazing is that after decades in public life and business these are the worst things that they can find to pin on Trump; - a birthday card - a supposedly inflated property value estimate, which the loan institution did not dispute - a non-diclosure agreement payment, which would be a misdemeanor without an underlying crime [he was never charged with the presumed underlying crime] -a sexual assault accusation from a mentally unbalanced serial fabulist [doesn't have a date for the alleged incident other than ''mid 1990s''] Is THIS really the best that they can do? One has to wonder if the press and government were out to get someone like Bill Clinton what they could find?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: paral04 7/20/2025 10:57:10 AM (No. 1979974)
IF they really had something on president Trump, Kamala would have used it in her campaign. This is a treasonous distraction and I am glad he is suing their socks off. Anyway, where was this issue when Biden had four years to investigate it?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: MickTurn 7/20/2025 1:07:52 PM (No. 1980038)
SUE SUE SUE and KEEP SUEING!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: JimBob 7/20/2025 2:05:01 PM (No. 1980058)
Be Aware of, and Beware, the Language of the Left! Notice how this article is worded. The Anti-President Trump BIAS oozes from every letter of every word. OK, L-Dotters! What shall we call the 'AP' going forward? The A_______ Press. We need a word that starts with 'A', than reflects the true leftward bias and untruthfulness that has permeated the organization these last few years. Fill in the blank!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: JimBob 7/20/2025 2:06:28 PM (No. 1980059)
correction: 'than' should be 'then'
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Vaquero45 7/20/2025 2:46:55 PM (No. 1980070)
#10: L-Dotters have called it “the AssPress” for years….
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Reply 13 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 7/20/2025 3:30:27 PM (No. 1980082)
I've been a decades-long subscriber to the WSJ, but I've become increasingly dismayed by their coverage of the second Trump administration. They find fault with most things PDJT does, and the few things they like, they either damn with faint praise, or complain that he didn't do enough. Their editorial pages (once a conservative bastion) show an increasing anti-Trump bias. It is irrational - do they really think a Harris administration would have been better???? They've always been pro-illegal immigration (cheap labor), but now they've gone off the rails to the extent that I'm considering cancelling my subscription.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: judy 7/21/2025 7:42:10 AM (No. 1980328)
WSJ really does not like Trump! I'm so old I remember when WSJ was a respected newspaper!
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