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Moments after Karoline Leavitt banned the Wall Street Journal from the travel press pool over its Trump-Epstein blockbuster, which prompted the president to sue Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch, Martha MacCallum decided to question Leavitt about Hunter Biden’s profane podcast appearance.
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The Dispatch on MSNClaims That Vance Met With Rupert Murdoch Right Before WSJ Bombshell Lack Evidence
In the wake of the Wall Street Journal article about President Donald Trump’s friendship with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, which detailed that a lewd letter from Trump was included in a book compiled for Epstein’s 50 th birthday in 2003,
Trump filed the suit on Friday, accusing the Murdoch-owned paper of “glaring failures in journalistic ethics and standards of accurate reporting,” after the publication of a story about a gift Trump supposedly gave Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday.
A source familiar with the trip told The Independent that the vice president spoke to both Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, as well as a group of executives from the right-wing network
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The New Republic on MSNWould Fox Take Donald Trump’s Side Against Rupert Murdoch? Uh ... Yes.
The Epstein story, currently fracturing the Trump coalition, is now poised to pit two NewsCorp properties against each other.
The President is suing the mogul for billions of dollars over an article about Jeffrey Epstein. The friendship of convenience is over, so what happens now?
Rupert Murdoch’s gamble appears way more considered and one that demonstrates he has better read the room than Elon Musk.
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Mediaite on MSNTrump’s WSJ Lawsuit Inadvertently Mutes His Biggest Megaphone: Fox News
Trump's lawsuit against WSJ may backfire—because it will mute Fox News hosts and weaken his anti-media attacks just when he needs them most.