President Donald Trump’s $10 billion libel lawsuit against media baron Rupert Murdoch over a Wall Street Journal article about Jeffrey Epstein was assigned to the same Florida federal judge who presided over Trump’s prior breach-of-contract suit against his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen. Trump dropped that $500 million lawsuit against Cohen shortly after Judge Darrin Gayles scheduled a deposition where Trump would have had to answer questions about his allegations under oath by Cohen’s attorney. Gayles became the first openly gay Black man to serve on the federal bench in 2014 after being appointed by then-President Barack Obama. U.S. President Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch. Evelyn Hockstein | Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters
President Donald Trump‘s new $10 billion libel lawsuit against media baron Rupert Murdoch over a Wall Street Journal article about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein