The suit, filed in filed in federal court in Miami, accuses the paper and its reporters of having “knowingly and recklessly” published “numerous false, defamatory, and disparaging statements,” which, it alleges, caused “overwhelming financial and reputational harm” to the president.
His reputation before: A pedophile, rapist, felon, fascist, serial bankrupter, fraudster, racist who wants to fuck his own daughter while stealing from children’s cancer charities.
His reputation after: A pedophile, rapist, felon, fascist, serial bankrupter, fraudster, racist who wants to fuck his own daughter while stealing from children’s cancer charities.
These are the same, case dismissed.
Unlikely. News companies have been settling with him even when he has no case. This is just legalized bribery/extortion.
I’d hope WSJ buckles in and fights so that discovery gets spicy.
Or Murdoch sees it as a way to “donate” to trump, and settles outrageously.
*who draws pictures
*who draws pictures poorly.
Honestly, that’s pretty damning. Remember that other failed artist who had a cult of personality and hated minorities?
Bob Ross???!? Say it ain’t so!
As it turns out, the article is a gift from Murdoch: https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/trump-epstein-letter-maga-documents
Just outrageous and questionable enough for MAGA to use as cover, and Trump to turn into a lighting rod. But it doesn’t change much for anyone else. Before, MAGA Media had nothing to point to and paint Trump as the victim. Now, they do.
It derailed the schism :/
Other media’s lapping it up to tell readers want they want to hear: MAGA is infighting, when in reality they are not.
Controlled opposition to set precedence for similar cases?
Hopefully this doesn’t just get dismissed and we get some nice information in discovery.
Based on the last few cases, The WSJ will cave and settle with Trump for a ridiculous amount of money in order to stay on his “good” side.
Or Murdock did this on purpose to give trump a safe case to set precedence on- Murdock will have his lawyers flub key parts, like arguing discovery poorly so that trump can claim the epstein files are privileged govt material, etc, so that when he brings suits against more hostile media co’s, the judges will have precedence to point to when denying better formulated arguments.
