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President Donald Trump has asked the US court to order Rupert Murdoch’s rapid deposit in his lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, citing media tycoon’s advanced age.
Trump filed a lawsuit against a billionaire for an article in The Journal, owned by Murdoch on News Corp, which claims that the president wrote a Baudi letter to celebrate sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.
In a lawsuit on Monday, Trump’s attorneys said he had informed Murdoch before the report was published that the letter was “fake”.
Trump’s lawyers say Murdoch should be asked to define himself quickly, noting that he is 94 years old and is “thought to have suffered recent significant health scares.”
“Taken together, these factors weigh strongly in determining that Murdoch will be inaccessible to personal testimony in the process,” Trump’s attorneys said in a federal court in Miami.
The $ 10 billion trial (£ 7.5 billion) against the Wall Street Journal states that the publication is trying to harm the president’s reputation.
Dow Jones, a magazine publisher, stood until reporting and said he was ready to defend himself against the president’s trial.
US District Judge Darin Gails, who chaired the case, asked Murdoch to respond to Trump’s request until August 4.
According to The Wall Street Journal, a letter bearing the name of Trump “contains several lines of writing text framed by the outline of a naked woman who seems to have been drawn by hand with a heavy marker.”
“Inside the naked woman, there was a writing note shaped like an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein written by a third party,” the document reports.
It has been reported that it contains a joking reference that “enigmas never gets old” and it has ended with the words: “Pala is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday – and can be another wonderful secret every day.”
Trump denied writing the note after the article was published on July 17, posting: “These are not my words, not the way I speak. Also, I don’t draw pictures.”
The article was published against the backdrop of increasing pressure on the Trump administration to disclose more information about Epstein.
Trump and Epstein had a public friendship, spanning several years. The president claims that their relations were rooted in 2004, long before Epstein was arrested on charges of sex trafficking.
Epstein died of suicide in 2019 while waiting for a lawsuit on sex traffic charges.
In addition to his birthday greeting, The Wall Street Journal said Trump said he was among hundreds of people listed in the documents of the Ministry of Justice in Epstein.
On Monday, the president told reporters that his name could be planted in Epstein’s files by former prosecutor Merrick Garland or former FBI Director James Komi.
Trump did not provide any evidence to support his allegations. Garland and Kom did not immediately answer his comments.
