Overview

• Trump filed a $10 billion defamation suit against Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal over reports that his name appears in DOJ files on Jeffrey Epstein and that he sent a sexually suggestive 2003 letter.
• Fox News hosts and the network’s website have largely buried the Journal’s Epstein scoop and instead amplified allegations against Barack Obama.
• Speaker Mike Johnson abruptly adjourned the House to block a vote on unsealing Justice Department records related to Epstein.
• Media experts say the dispute is straining Trump’s previously congenial relationship with Murdoch’s media properties.
• Wall Street Journal reporters are expected to press ahead with additional investigations into Trump’s ties to Epstein despite legal and editorial pressures.