The lawsuit sets the stage for another legal showdown initiated by Trump against the media, this time against his close ally.

Donald Trump has sued Rupert Murdoch and his media companies over a Wall Street Journal report on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

The litigious president is threatening to sue the News Corp mogul in his latest shot at media coverage he dislikes

Donald Trump is suing Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal for defamation over the Jeffrey Epstein birthday letter story.

U.S. President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Friday against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters, raising claims under federal libel law, court records show. A copy of the complaint was not immediately available.

If Donald Trump's defamation suit doesn't settle, the discovery process could raise more questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Following The Wall Street Journal ‘s bombshell report on a birthday letter Donald Trump allegedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein, the president sued the newspaper’s parent company, News Corp., Dow Jones (its publisher), two reporters for the Journal, and billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who owns News Corp. owner.

As corporations pay shakedown settlements, the 94-year-old right-wing media mogul has an opportunity to resist Trump’s assaults on the First Amendment.

If Rupert Murdoch becomes a white knight standing up to a rampantly bullying US president, the world has moved into the upside-down. This is, after all, the media mogul whose US television network, Fox News,

President Trump is under increasing pressure to have the Justice Department release files about the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch have had a symbiotic relationship dating back almost 50 years. But could the president's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal truly mark the end?