President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against media giant Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal over the newspaper’s reporting on ties between Trump and convicted paedophile Jeffery Epstein.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Miami on Friday and seeks at least $10 billion in damages – that’s around £7.5 billion.
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal published a story describing a sexually suggestive letter that, the newspaper says, bore Trump’s name and was included in a 2003 album for Epstein’s 50th birthday.
The president denied writing the letter, calling it “false, malicious, and defamatory.”
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