Tag Archives: Rupert Murdoch

Axios reports: President Trump and Rupert Murdoch reached a deal Monday to postpone the media mogul’s deposition in a libel lawsuit related to the Wall Street Journal publishing a report on an Epstein birthday book, per court filings. Trump’s lawyers had raised concerns about Murdoch’s age and health when they asked a federal court in Florida last week to expedite …

The New York Post reports: The New York Post is going Hollywood. The nation’s most popular tabloid will launch The California Post early next year — delivering its brand of fearless, common-sense journalism and legendary headlines at a critical juncture for the Golden State. “Los Angeles and California surely need a daily dose of The Post as an antidote to …

The New York Times reports: Lawyers for President Trump said on Monday that Rupert Murdoch, because of his advanced age, should be deposed within 15 days in the president’s $10 billion libel lawsuit against him and The Wall Street Journal over an article about the president’s connections with Jeffrey Epstein. In a filing in the U.S. District Court for the …

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump has been dealt an early blow in his libel lawsuit against media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal. The case was assigned to a federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama. Judge Darrin Gayles was elevated to the bench under the Obama administration in 2014, becoming the first openly gay, …

CNN reports: President Donald Trump filed a libel lawsuit against the publisher of the Wall Street Journal and reporters who wrote a story about a collection of letters gifted to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003, including a note bearing Trump’s name and an outline of a naked woman. The lawsuit, which seeks at least $20 billion, is …

CNBC reports: 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, courts records show. Court records show that Trump filed a lawsuit alleging libel against Murdoch, the Journal’s publisher, Dow Jones, and …

CNN reports: 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. “I told Rupert Murdoch it was a Scam, that he shouldn’t print this Fake Story. But he did, and now I’m …

Variety reports: President Trump is unhappy with Fox News Channel again over the conservative outlet’s poll finding that he has record-low approval ratings after the first 100 days of his second term in office. “Rupert Murdoch has told me for years that he is going to get rid of his FoxNews, Trump Hating, Fake Pollster, but he has never done …

The Associated Press reports: Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. tabloids made a rare apology to Prince Harry in settling his privacy invasion lawsuit and will pay him a substantial sum, his lawyer announced Wednesday. News Group Newspapers offered a “full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex for the serious intrusion by The Sun between 1996 and 2011 into his private …

CNN reports: Smartmatic, the voting technology company suing Fox News over its promotion of 2020 election lies, is trying to obtain evidence from the secret court battle between Rupert Murdoch and his children over the future of his right-wing media empire. For the first time, Smartmatic has gone directly to the probate court in Nevada and asked a commissioner to …

The New York Times reports: A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to change his family’s trust to consolidate his eldest son Lachlan’s control of his media empire and lock in Fox News’s right-wing editorial slant, according to a sealed court document obtained by The New York Times. The commissioner, Edmund J. Gorman Jr., concluded in a decision …

From the New York Post editorial board: The overriding rule of medicine is: First, do no harm. We’re certain installing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head Health and Human Services breaks this rule. A radical, prolonged and confused transition ordered by a guy like RFK Jr., who will use his high office to spout his controversial beliefs, leaves a lot …

From the editorial board of the New York Post: In 2021, when Biden-Harris took over, the country took a hard left turn, with disastrous results. Over these nearly four years, inflation has walloped Americans, millions of migrants have crossed the border illegally, some cities have been taken over by gangs and crime, radical and ridiculous culture wars over DEI and …

“I’m going to see Rupert Murdoch. That’s a big event. I don’t know he’s thrilled that I say it. And I’m going to tell him something very simple, because I can’t talk to anybody else about — don’t put on negative commercials for 21 days, don’t put them on, and don’t put on their horrible people that come and lie. …

NOTUS reports: Rupert Murdoch has launched a full-scale lobbying effort to get Donald Trump to pick North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum for vice president, sources told NOTUS. And if Trump won’t pick Burgum, these sources said, Murdoch apparently has one last request: At least don’t pick Sen. J.D. Vance. Sources told NOTUS Friday that Murdoch has been pushing for Burgum …

The Hill reports: The Wall Street Journal editorial board on Wednesday deemed North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) the best option to serve as former President Trump’s running mate of those being considered for the role. The Rupert Murdoch-owned Journal described Trump’s vice presidential selection as a major moment for the former president to try to reassure skeptical voters and …

The Daily Beast reports: An awards ceremony where Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, and others were set to be given an award in the name of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg won’t go ahead as scheduled, the foundation running the event announced Monday, after backlash from the late Supreme Court justice’s family. Julie Opperman, chair of the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation, …

The Washington Post reports: The family of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and some of the Supreme Court justice’s former colleagues have denounced this year’s slate of honorees for an award that a philanthropic foundation bestows in the name of the liberal icon. In a statement Friday, the family called the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation’s plans to give its “Ruth …

The New York Times reports: Rupert Murdoch decided that at 92, it was time to give up the reins of power at his media empire — but it seems he believes age is no barrier for new love, or a new marriage. On Thursday, Mr. Murdoch’s office said that he planned to marry his girlfriend, Elena Zhukova, 67, a retired …

The Hill reports: Rupert Murdoch, the outgoing chairman of Fox and News Corp., is set to receive $142 million in pension benefits as part of his retirement. Murdoch, 92, has accumulated more than $140 million in pension benefits during his more than six decades-long career leading Fox Corp., financial news outlet Pension&Investments reported this week, citing the company’s 2022 proxy …