TRUE or FALSE: In July 2025, Trump filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two WSJ reporters over allegations they published a false letter supposedly written by Trump to Jeffrey Epstein.

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TRUE. On July 18, 2025, Trump filed Trump v. Murdoch et al. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, seeking at least $10 billion in defamation damages against The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, Robert Thomson, and reporters Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo over a July 17 WSJ report alleging he sent a bawdy birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. The suit names Miami federal court as the forum and accuses the defendants of defamation for publishing a report that caused “overwhelming” financial and reputational harm to Trump. To succeed, he must prove “actual malice” under New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), showing the defendants knew the story was false or recklessly disregarded the truth. Reuters (July 18, 2025); AP (July 18, 2025).

TRUE or FALSE: In July 2025, Trump filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two WSJ reporters over allegations they published a false letter supposedly written by Trump to Jeffrey Epstein.

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