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senseandsensibility

(22,917 posts) Fri Jul 18, 2025, 05:36 PM Friday

Trump sued for libel just now. Lisa Rubin says it's a shiny object

I guess he actually did it, but according to Lisa Rubin, a legal analyst on MSNBC, it's a "shiny object." If it doesn't get dismissed, he will have to go through discovery and much more information will come out. Ms. Rubin says that she thinks the WSJ has much more to reveal, and it will all come out if trump proceeds.

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Trump sued for libel just now. Lisa Rubin says it's a shiny object (Original Post) senseandsensibility Friday OP

Automatic Timewas Friday #1

He'll drop it. Scrivener7 Friday #2

Rather than answer all the questions in discovery senseandsensibility Friday #3

' she thinks the WSJ has much more to reveal, and it will all come out if trump proceeds.' emulatorloo Friday #4

Maddow Blog-Following Epstein report, Trump files lawsuit against WSJ, Rupert Murdoch and others LetMyPeopleVote Friday #5

Timewas

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1. Automatic

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Fri Jul 18, 2025, 05:43 PM

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Knee jerk trumpian reaction

Scrivener7

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2. He'll drop it.

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Fri Jul 18, 2025, 05:45 PM

Friday

senseandsensibility

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3. Rather than answer all the questions in discovery

Reply to Scrivener7 (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 05:46 PM

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I think that's a good guess. TACO can apply to more than tariffs.

emulatorloo

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4. ' she thinks the WSJ has much more to reveal, and it will all come out if trump proceeds.'

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Fri Jul 18, 2025, 05:49 PM

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Yeah - I think the same. WSJ legal team had to have throughly reviewed the story and anything else the reporters had forthcoming.

Plus anything Trump declares “FAKE” always turns out to be true.

LetMyPeopleVote

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5. Maddow Blog-Following Epstein report, Trump files lawsuit against WSJ, Rupert Murdoch and others

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Fri Jul 18, 2025, 06:46 PM

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On Thursday night, the president vowed to sue The Wall Street Journal. Less than a day later, it became clear that he wasn't bluffing.

BREAKING: Following Epstein report, Trump files lawsuit against WSJ, Rupert Murdoch and others www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— MSNBC (@msnbc.com) 2025-07-18T21:15:29.728Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-sues-wsj-murdoch-epstein-birthday-letter-rcna219701

Evidently, he wasn’t kidding. CNBC reported:

President Donald Trump on Friday followed through on his threat to sue media mogul Rupert Murdoch after his Wall Street Journal published an article saying that Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a ‘bawdy’ letter for Epstein’s 50th birthday. Court records show that Trump filed a lawsuit alleging libel against Murdoch, the Journal’s publisher, Dow Jones, and the reporters who wrote the article in federal court for the Southern District of Florida.

The civil suit comes one day after the Republican referred to the Journal as a “disgusting and filthy rag.”

According to the docket, Trump’s claims are: "Cause: 28:1332 Diversity-Libel, Assault, Slander." It was filed in the Southern District of Florida. A complaint has yet to be listed on the docket......

Thursday's report, however, appears to have taken the president's contempt for the WSJ to a new level. The Journal advanced the controversy with a new report on a 2003 birthday album, collected by former Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, which reportedly included a highly provocative letter bearing Trump’s name and signature.

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