Trump sued over a Wall Street Journal story about a note bearing Trump’s signature that was sent to Jeffrey Epstein along with a sketch of a naked woman

Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. asked a U.S. judge to throw out President Donald Trump’s US$10 billion libel lawsuit over a Wall Street Journal report tying him to a bawdy birthday note to the late Jeffrey Epstein, calling the case “an affront to the First Amendment.”

The July 17 story about a note bearing Trump’s signature that was sent to Epstein along with a sketch of a naked woman in 2003 is true and doesn’t defame the president’s character, lawyers for the 94-year-old News Corp. chairman emeritus said Monday in a request to dismiss the suit.

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