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Donald Trump has refiled a defamation suit seeking astatine slightest $10bn successful damages against nan Wall Street Journal complete its reporting connected his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, aft a judge threw retired an earlier type complete ineligible deficiencies.
The suit is 1 of respective that nan president has brought successful his individual capacity against news organizations, portion of what critics opportunity is simply a wider unit run against nan media.
The suit claims that nan Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper tarnished his estimation pinch an article describing a day paper to deceased activity offender Epstein arsenic base Trump’s signature.
Trump and his lawyers said nan paper is fake, moreover aft it was released by lawmakers investigating Epstein’s case, Reuters reported. The president is seeking astatine slightest $10bn successful damages, according to nan amended suit - nan aforesaid magnitude he had antecedently sought.
“At nan clip of publication, Defendants recklessly disregarded whether nan Defamatory Statements were existent and/or they purposefully avoided nan find of nan truth,” lawyers for Trump wrote successful nan amended complaint.
It comes arsenic nan Trump management opened a criminal investigation into E Jean Carroll, nan writer who accused nan president of intersexual assault, according to news reports.
Prosecutors, nan New York Times and CNN reported connected Wednesday, are looking into whether Carroll, 82, committed perjury successful a 2022 deposition during her civilian lawsuits against Trump, successful which she said she did not judge extracurricular financial support for her ineligible battles.
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In a caller question and reply pinch CBS News, Jill Biden, nan erstwhile first lady, said that she was “frightened” arsenic she watched her husband, then-president Joe Biden, frost up during his disastrous 2024 debate against Donald Trump. Pressed to explicate what happened, Jill Biden said: “I don’t cognize what happened. I mean arsenic I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke’. And it frightened maine to death.”
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Two House Democrats, Don Beyer of Virginia and Dina Titus of Nevada, announced that they scheme to present a measure that would “explicitly prohibit building of President Trump’s projected ‘triumphal arch’ extracurricular Arlington National Cemetery”.
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Cam Higby, a rightwing activistic disguised arsenic a pro-Palestinian activist, disrupted a news convention pinch nan Democratic congressmen Jerry Nadler and Dan Goldman extracurricular nan Delaney Hall migration detention halfway successful Newark, New Jersey.
