Trump’s lawsuit against Murdoch and “Wall Street Journal” turns into the character

President Trump A defamation lawsuit against Wall Street Magazine Its strong owner has taken a personal turn.

In legal deposits – and On social media Trump says that he personally told the media pole, Robert Murdoch, that a vibrant birthday greeting that he was supposed to send two decades ago to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein was not present and did not exist. Murdoch magazine I mentioned it anyway, although Trump’s warning.

now, Trump asks a federal judge in Miami to force him The man who once called him "Dear friend Robert Murdoch" To answer his lawyer’s questions under the department within 15 days. Trump’s legal team acknowledges that the ink is barely dried on the lawsuit – there is no schedule for the court’s final dates so far – but he argues that Murdoch is unlikely to witness personally whenever a trial occurs because of his progress in his age and health.

"Murdoch is 94 years old, who has suffered from multiple health issues throughout his life, believes that he suffered from major health concerns, and is supposed to live in New York, New York," Deposit cases. "Combating, these factors are highly weighing in determining that Murdoch will not be available for personal certificate in the trial."

The deposit has been repeatedly stressed on Omar Murdoch and refers to healthy setbacks, including A collapse reported during breakfast in London In 2023 with the CEO of his British Life Company, Rabika Broks. Judge Murdoch commanded – the only person who asked to force Trump to undergo an accelerated deposition – to respond by the end of Monday.

"The way is blissfully sarcastically," Joseph Ozel, former vice president and legal executive director of Murdoch newspaper and the publishing empire. "It is the classic Trump. He uses Lawfare, to use his own mandate to silence people.

"The problem is that it follows the people who are equipped with the same extent – and in some respects, I would like to say, better equipped – to move in these things," Azam tells NPR. The unusual demand to search for an urgent deposit for Robert Murdoch – and only Robert Murdoch – feels like "An unjustified attempt to install the bear," Azzel says.

Murdoch is the honorary head of the NewS Corp, the institutional father of Wall Street Magazinethe New York Post And newspapers in the United Kingdom and its homeland Australia. His son Lachlan is the president of the company and his CEO Robert Thompson has long been the CEO. MURDOCH spokesperson and Murdoch spokesperson did not respond to suspension requests; Dow Jones, the corporate department that supervises magazineand magazine She refused to comment through a spokesman. Trump’s legal team also refused to comment.

Days after filing the lawsuit, magazine Follow last week with Another scriptIn May, the Ministry of Justice told the Ministry of Justice that his name appears among other matters in the materials he possesses about two Epsin. NPR did not confirm independently magazine The initial report. US Prosecutor Bam Bondi said she had briefed the president on the results. She did not say if she had told him that his name had appeared.

While external legal observers doubt the arguments that pay Trump’s suit, his lawyers won settlements ranging from 10 million dollars to $ 25 million from parent companies xand ABCand CBS and Facebook On the lawsuits that legal experts also consider a gentle position. He did not prevail in the trial; Other Trump lawsuits against media companies such as New York Timesand CNN and Washington PostThe famous investigation correspondent Bob Woodward It was rejected with a little bang.

An American right

The two men knew each other about the best part of the half century of New York City City circles: the owner of the Tablebide and the real estate cancer that enhances self -reinforcement and who fed the stories about himself for the book of columns gossip for the charge of identifying his name.

The mourners of conservative politics and the media struck The comfort alliance The mutual self -interest over the past decade, since Trump for the first time entered the race for the presidency and won the White House.

Trump was strengthened by Fox News, founded by Murdoch in 1996, as well New York Post and magazineConservative editing pages. the magazineNews reports work regardless of the pages of her opinion – which is much lower than Murdoch’s refinement of his political whims. Marduk usually appears respect for the rule of news leaders in his most famous newspaper. But many viewers and readers of Murdoch’s media possesses are strong supporters of the president.

Perhaps the greatest demonstration of this alliance occurred in 2023, when Murdoch agreed to pay 78.5 million dollars to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominional voting regulations against Fox News. The voting machine had filed a lawsuit against Fox and the guests falsely and repeatedly from Trump’s allies that the company helped manipulate the 2020 race for Jo Biden.

However, the Fox materials that became public during this litigation showed that Murdoch was not in particular that expresses a great respect for Trump. The documents showed Murdoch, their executives and their journalists Recognized For each other who knew that Biden had won the elections fairly. However, they decided that they could not risk offensive with Trump’s voters, who were among the most loyal viewers.

Trump shopped Murdoch for other candidates in 2024 and the difficult reports and reprimands published by some of his benefits. For example, magazine The opening articles criticized Trump’s driving in definitions, and the paper reports were a constant source of irritation.

From an ally to the “malicious” media

In the case of the Epstein card story, Trump blames Marduk himself.

"Wall Street MagazineMarduk, personally, was warned directly by President Donald J. Trump is that the supposed message that President Trump printed to Epstein was fake, and if they printed it, they will be prosecuted," Trump published the social truth after publishing the story. "Mr. Marduk stated that he would take care of him, but it is clear that he had no ability to do so."

Trump also wrote that he and the White House press secretary Caroline Levit told each magazineEmir of the editor -in -chief, Emma Taker, that the story was incorrect and that it is "I don’t want to hear that."

"The press must learn to be honest, and do not depend on sources that may not even exist," Trump wrote.

the magazine He has not yet reproduced a birthday greeting from Trump to Epstein, which he described as the drawings of a naked woman accompanied by the distinguished signature of the President of the Future. Trump’s lawyers say that the newspaper does not own it because it does not exist.

in The original lawsuitTrump’s lawyers say that magazine "The world was published in the world’s wrong, defamatory and malicious data" In the direction of Murdoch and Thomson, his CEO.

the magazine Legal team She has a good reputation – before Murdoch acquired the paper in 2007 and has since preserved it – to hold her reports to strict standards before publishing and defending it after that. Murdoch Not the magazine From the publication Investigation The pieces that reveal the deception behind the start of the blood test in Theranos-although it was a major investor in the company, and its founder appealed to the stories. Trump may not really want the trial to go to the stage of discovery, when Murdoch’s lawyers can obtain special documents previously and ask the president under the oath about his relationship with a man who is now considered one of the most sexual violators in the country.

AZAM, CEO of News Corp. says. Trump appears to be "You are trying to contact Saleh with an old friend" By warning Murdoch not to publish the Epstein card story. It may work with an element in a social column published in New York Post But not in news coverage in magazineAzzam says.

However, Trump, as head of the Titan newspaper – has long been continuing New Yorker.

"As long as Robert is alive – and he might be alive as long as he wants – it will not change much when it comes to the richness of this kind of things," Azzel says. "People still assume they can contact him and have some magic stick under his office that can make things already move."

Through the recent lawsuit, Trump Murdoch treats like one of the providers of what he taught "Fake news." Not an independent thinking. Certainly, it is not an important and loyal ally.

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