Overview

• Trump’s Miami federal suit seeks at least $10 billion from the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, News Corp and Rupert Murdoch over a report that he sent Jeffrey Epstein a suggestive birthday letter in 2003.
• The White House removed the Journal from the Scotland press pool, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt calling its reporting “fake and defamatory.”
• Speaker Mike Johnson postponed a planned vote on releasing additional Epstein documents before Congress’s August recess, saying the administration needs space to address the matter.
• At Trump’s direction, the Justice Department has petitioned a federal court to unseal grand jury testimony in the Epstein case, balancing calls for transparency with witness privacy.
• Prominent MAGA figures such as Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon and Elon Musk have publicly accused the administration of betraying its core supporters over the handling of the Epstein files.