Trump sues Murdoch and Wall Street Journal for libel

Defamation lawsuit filed over alleged Epstein birthday letter

- ALEX WOODWARD IN NEW YORK

Donald Trump has filed a $10bn 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 as well as the two WSJ journalists whose bylines appeared on the story.

Following the publication of the story on Thursday night, the president fired off several lawsuit threats against his once-former ally, whose massive News Corp media conglomerate owns WSF as well as Fox News andthe New York Post, among other titles.

The newspaper published his alleged 50th birthday greeting to Epstein from 2003, which was described as including a sexually suggestive drawing and a birthday wish that says, “may every day be another wonderful secret”.

“I look forward to getting Rupert Murdoch to testify in my lawsuit against him and his ‘pile of garbage’ newspaper,” Mr Trump wrote on his Truth Social yesterday morning. “That will be an interesting experience!!!”