CNBC reports:

President Donald Trump on Friday followed through on his threat to sue media mogul Rupert Murdoch after his Wall Street Journal published an article saying that Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a “bawdy” letter for Epstein’s 50th birthday, courts records show.

Trump filed a lawsuit related to alleged libel, assault or slander against Murdoch, the Journal’s publisher, Dow Jones & Co., and the two reporters who wrote the article in federal court for the Southern District of Florida, according to that court’s docket.

The civil complaint was not immediately available.

“I look forward to getting Rupert Murdoch to testify in my lawsuit against him and his ‘pile of garbage’ newspaper, the WSJ. That will be an interesting experience!!!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post earlier Friday. [Continue reading…]

Filed in Aileen Cannon’s district, despite neither of them being there.

She’s the Trump appointed judge who has been previously reprimanded for favouritism in his other cases.

Either way, dumb move by Trump opening himself to discovery.

WSJ 100% baited this.

Trump thinks he… https://t.co/ACkLhFRZxy

— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) July 18, 2025