Murdoch Tells Trump to Bring It on In Fight Over WSJ's Epstein Story

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Daily Beast

Updated Jul. 20 2025 4:23AM EDT
Published Jul. 19 2025 2:10AM EDT


Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal’s parent company, dared President Donald Trump to bring it on after the president launched a $10 billion libel lawsuit against the publication. “We have full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reporting,” a spokesperson for Dow Jones said in a statement. “[We] will vigorously defend against any lawsuit.”

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. The story detailed letters given to the convicted sex trafficker for his 50th birthday, which reportedly included a signed note from Trump inside a drawing of a naked woman.

The note contained the chilling phrase “may every day be another wonderful secret.” “Those are not my words,” Trump posted on Truth Social in response to the story. “Also, I don’t draw pictures.” The WSJ has rebutted the latter claim, highlighting numerous images drawn by the president, four of which were auctioned off during his first term.

Rupert Murdoch, the Australian media mogul behind Fox News, News Corp, and hundreds of national and international outlets, took ownership of the WSJ in 2007 following the acquisition of Dow Jones & Company. Trump claimed that Murdoch had been personally warned not to print the letter, but he “did not have the power to do so.” Therefore, the president plans to make good on his promise to “sue his a-- off.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/murdoch-tells-trump-to-bring-it-on-in-fight-over-epstein-story/

[sop]

1. Mad dog Trump keeps biting the hands feeding him.

Rupert will just have to take him out to the gravel pit.

[CanonRay]

9. And Vance just flew to Montana to be anointed heir to the throne.

where the coup to oust Trump was finalized.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Possible. Somewhat unlikely, but very possible. . . . nt

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. TACO Don will likely LOSE this suit and will be ordered to pay up.

But appealing any outcome will delay payment. Take the verdict in the New York State Fraud case. TACO still has not paid the $455 million he owes the state. IN APPEAL.

[Attilatheblond]

22. Dopy Don always thinks only he can fight. Thinks others can't fight back. Always forgets about that DISCOVERY thing

Lawsuit will go POOF in the night.

[question everything]

38. He did drop his lawsuit against Bill Maher who claimed that he was a progeny of an orangutan

[EYESORE 9001]

3. The discovery phase should be a hoot

Perhaps rumpco will incur some peripheral damage as a result.

[Bluetus]

18. No way Trump ever lets this go to discovery. An empty threat.

Murdoch wishes the case would actually be brought. That would sell a lot of newspapers.

But the bigger story is that it sure looks like Murdoch is through with Trump.

It is not coincidental that so many different players just happened to turn on Trump the week after the Big Billionaire Bill was signed into law. This is a highly coordinated event and THAT is why Trump is having his freak-out. it isn't just Musk. It is all of his powerful supporters who aren't already in the cabinet. And for the MAGA base to also parrot the billionaires, you can bet there is a whole lot of robo-agitating going on in MAGA-world.

BUT ... beware the words of Emerson. "When you strike at the king, you must kill him". Will these weenies kiss and make up in a few weeks as they always have before? This looks irreparable to me.

[C_U_L8R]

4. This feels as realistic as a pro wrestling match

I may be wrong but it seems like theatre... to distract.
We'll see.

[Ocelot II]

6. Distract from what? All it's doing is drawing more attention to Epstein

and making MAGA wonder even more why Trump won't release the files.

[emulatorloo]

7. Yes, you may be wrong. Publishing more and more evidence of Trump's involvement w Epstein

‘distracts’ from nothing.

[C_U_L8R]

14. I hope you're right. And I'm wrong.

Love to see Trump go down in flames by any means.
But I'm gonna keep my hand on my wallet just in case.

[IbogaProject]

23. The camps are being built

But now the coverage of that is now muted and sporadic, for one example.

[emulatorloo]

33. I can walk and chew gum at the same time. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

[CrispyQ]

20. I liken it to a three ring circus more than pro wrestling.

I know some think he's creating diversions & chaos with a plan, but I don't. Trump is a reactionary. It's why he says one thing one day & something totally contrary the next—he just reacts to the moment. He says/does whatever seems most expedient at the moment. Chaos will follow anyone who lives like that.

I'd be surprised if he makes it to the midterms.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Vance flew to Montana briefly on Tuesday, airport 70 mi fr Murdoch's ranch, to deliver message personally undoubtedly.nt

[tetedur]

8. And perhaps Vance got a message to personally deliver to Trump.

These messages obviously couldn't be relayed via phone could they? Trump is too CHICKEN to do his own dirty work. Vance is his messenger boy and the United States foots the bill for a flight on Air Force 2.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. tRump's bellboy

[Paladin]

21. I hope Vance never EVER escapes the "Bellboy" image.

Talk about a perfect fit...

[Hornedfrog2000]

37. Isnt his name john or something???

I mean, normally in mental health when people randomly change their name it is because they lack identity.

[SunSeeker]

39. Or they don't like who they are and want to be someone else. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

40. However he styles himself, his name is "Shady". . . . . nt

[twodogsbarking]

10. The message was in the form of threats no doubt. Have a great day. Ice cream.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Two scoops! (let's hope there is at least one more bigger shoe to drop, mixing metaphors) . . . . . nt

[twodogsbarking]

12. His shoe size has likely increased. XXXXX-Wide.

[FakeNoose]

13. Why is Chump trying to make Rupert his enemy?

Rupert has the means and the power to destroy Chump once and for all. What game is he playing, by making these threats?

[emulatorloo]

15. Well Trump's "fake news" and "radical left hoax" playbook has worked before but this time

he’s lost control of this Epstein stuff.

As far as Murdoch empire goes I think they’ve had it w Trump for a while. I remember them pushing DeSantis hard in the primary.

[AllaN01Bear]

24. he turned on musk remember?

[FakeNoose]

27. Not until after Musk said that Chump is named in the Epstein documents

I'm sure there were private words between them, before the public falling out.

My guess is that Musk did that because he knew he had nothing to do with Epstein, even though he's been 100% corrupt in so many other government dealings. It was pure deflection and a little bit of hubris for Musk.

[Dave Bowman]

19. I never thought that one day I would root for that scumbag Murdoch.

I hope that this will help bring the orange maniac down.

[GiqueCee]

25. Ah, yes...

... but then, if they successfully invoke the 25th Amendment, we'll get Vance, or whatever his name is this week. He's just as malicious as Trump, but not quite as stupid. The conservative king-makers don't have much of a bench; a step-down from Vance is Speaker of the House, "Moses" Johnson, the world's most hypocritical Über-Christian, who's got the backbone of a day-old banana peel, and would pee himself if Murdoch glanced at him sideways.
If the Democrats could get their hands on the voluminous proof of the Conservative crimes that let Trump get elected again, maybe Kamala Harris could take her rightful place behind the Resolute Desk. But that's a far-fetched dream these days.

[Gum Logger]

28. It was California Dreaming that got us into this nut roll

[niyad]

32. Meaning what, exactly?

[Pas-de-Calais]

26. Instead of lawsuit, how about a wrasslin' match between them

[niyad]

29. The orange thing said he did not WRITE pictures. Get things correct, db.

[Think. Again.]

30. Just another show performed by 2 longtime co-conspirators.

[bamagal62]

36. That's what I've been thinking.

[Brainfodder]

31. Bring on that DISCOVER PHASE I think I hear Rupert scream at the Blobfather?

I look forward to Q.T.'s future take on this whole fiasco in about a 100 2 hour episodic biweekly adventure, if climate change will allow it?

[nowforever]

34. Clearly

wonderful secret = underage girls

[Bayard]

35. Clash Of The Titans

I'm betting Musk, maybe Murdoch, purchased videos of trump with the young girls. That's what has him all a-tizzy. He thought those were for his viewing pleasure only--if he knew they were even being filmed.

This is getting juicier by the moment.

[Cha]

41. Whoa.. I was looking some good news...

I hope WSJ TEARS that Neo Nazi to Shreds!

TY BRDS!