Trump seeks deposition of Rupert Murdoch in Epstein defamation case
Trump has struggled to contain political fallout from his administration's handling of the Epstein case and reports about his relationship with the late billionaire have persisted throughout the controversy.
President Donald Trump has sought a court-ordered deposition of Rupert Murdoch as part of his ongoing defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
The president specifically asked that the court set the timeline for Murdoch's deposition to 15 days, Reuters reported.
Trump has struggled to contain political fallout from his administration's handling of the Epstein case and reports about his relationship with the late billionaire have persisted throughout the controversy. The Wall Street Journal, for its part, recently published an article about a 2003 birthday card sent to Epstein that allegedly bore Trump's name.
Trump promptly condemned the story and filed suit against the paper, which Murdoch owns. Though formerly somewhat aligned, the pair have long since broken with one another, largely due to Trump's high-profile attacks on Fox News, another of Murdoch's networks, over what he perceived to be an editorial bias against him.
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