The Wall Street Journal, its parent company and Rupert Murdoch asked a federal judge to dismiss Donald Trumpā€˜s $10 billion defamation lawsuit over the publication’s report on the president’s past connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

ā€œThe First Amendment’s protections for truthful speech are the backbone of the Constitution,ā€ the Journal’s attorneys wrote in their motion.

The attorneys also challenged the notion the that the article could have damaged Trump’s reputation, noting that he had ā€œpublicly admitted to ā€˜locker room talk’ and has made numerous bawdy public statements,ā€ as well as to his relationship with Epstein.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Yeah wasn’t the nauseating pun / gag really that Trump was saying that Jeffrey and him were ā€œbreast budsā€?

    It took me a long time to get that because it’s fucking disgusting and nobody covered it that way.