Trump wants Murdoch deposed within 15 days in Epstein birthday letter defamation case: Live updates – UK Times

“This is a pretty substantial distraction,” one person close to the situation told The Washington Post.

Rhian Lubin has the story.

Maxwell argues that she was unlawfully prosecuted for sex trafficking minors alongside Epstein.

President Donald Trump baselessly suggested that any mentions of his name in criminal case files related to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein would be there as a result of Democratic efforts to ensnare him in a “hoax.”

Sitting next to British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during an hour-long media availability in Scotland, Trump called the continuing furor over the case of Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, “a hoax that’s been built up way beyond proportion” and accused his predecessor of having tampered with the infamous case files.

President Donald Trump asked a federal court to expedite the deposition of Rupert Murdoch in his lawsuit over the Wall Street Journal’s report about the alleged birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein because of concerns the 94-year-old media titan either won’t live long enough to testify at a potential trial or might not be alive.

“I never had the privilege of going to his island, and I did turn it down, but a lot of people in Palm Beach were invited to his island,” Trump said.

Rhian Lubin has the story.

“Let them destroy each other. If we have to throw a log on the fire, we’ll do it,” one House Democratic aide told The Hill.