Proving that the Wall Street Journal's reporting is false would require Trump to answer questions under oath about Jeffrey Epstein.

Gayles serves on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, where Trump's lawsuit was filed. He was appointed to the court by former President Barack Obama in 2014, becoming the first openly gay Black man to serve on the federal bench.

If Donald Trump's defamation suit doesn't settle, the discovery process could raise more questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

President Trump has turned on his longtime on-again, off-again ally, Rupert Murdoch. He filed a $10 billion dollar lawsuit against Murdoch and his company Newscorp after the Wall Street Journal’s report on Trump’s alleged racy birthday letter to Epstein in 2003.

Legal experts say US defamation laws make cases brought forward by public figures "extremely" difficult for them to win.

The litigious president is threatening to sue the News Corp mogul in his latest shot at media coverage he dislikes

President Trump is vowing to sue the Wall Street Journal and owner Rupert Murdoch over the outlet’s bombshell story detailing a 2003 birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein bearing Trump’s name and a drawing of a naked woman.

Vice President JD Vance reportedly met with News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch just hours before the Wall Street Journal published a surprise story about the friendship between President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

Veteran journalist Tina Brown claimed in a new Substack article that "old crocodile" Rupert Murdoch was very much looking forward to taking on Donald Trump over The Wall Street Journal's report on the president's relationship with sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.