Rupert Murdoch asks judge to toss Trump's lawsuit over Epstein birthday book: report
The Wall Street Journal's owner, Rupert Murdoch, asked the court to toss the lawsuit from President Donald Trump over the Journal's report about the so-called "birthday book" for Jeffrey Epstein, Bloomberg Law reported.
The report said that Trump drew an outline of a woman and typed up a little script for a conversation between the two men where they shared a "secret."
Trump called it a lie and sued not only the Journal but its parent company, NewsCorp, and owner Murdoch personally, for $10 billion.
Since the lawsuit, the book was turned over to Congress and released to the public, with the page spreading across the internet.
Trump denied it was his, implying that someone had falsified his signature. FBI Director Kash Patel agreed to open an investigation into the allegedly fraudulent signature.
Murdoch filed the motion Monday, asking the Miami court to dismiss the case as the report does not defame the president's character.
Murdoch attacked the lawsuit as “an affront to the First Amendment.”
Despite Trump's lawsuit, the Murdochs are being discussed as possible co-owners of the U.S. version of TikTok.