• StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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    The suit, filed in filed in federal court in Miami, accuses the paper and its reporters of having “knowingly and recklessly” published “numerous false, defamatory, and disparaging statements,” which, it alleges, caused “overwhelming financial and reputational harm” to the president.

    His reputation before: A pedophile, rapist, felon, fascist, serial bankrupter, fraudster, racist who wants to fuck his own daughter while stealing from children’s cancer charities.

    His reputation after: A pedophile, rapist, felon, fascist, serial bankrupter, fraudster, racist who wants to fuck his own daughter while stealing from children’s cancer charities.

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    As it turns out, the article is a gift from Murdoch: https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/trump-epstein-letter-maga-documents

    Just outrageous and questionable enough for MAGA to use as cover, and Trump to turn into a lighting rod. But it doesn’t change much for anyone else. Before, MAGA Media had nothing to point to and paint Trump as the victim. Now, they do.

    It derailed the schism :/

    Other media’s lapping it up to tell readers want they want to hear: MAGA is infighting, when in reality they are not.

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      Yeah. The narrative on the right has been changing ever since this came out. I wouldn’t be that surprised if that was the point of the whole thing.

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      Hopefully this doesn’t just get dismissed and we get some nice information in discovery.

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        Based on the last few cases, The WSJ will cave and settle with Trump for a ridiculous amount of money in order to stay on his “good” side.

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          Or Murdock did this on purpose to give trump a safe case to set precedence on- Murdock will have his lawyers flub key parts, like arguing discovery poorly so that trump can claim the epstein files are privileged govt material, etc, so that when he brings suits against more hostile media co’s, the judges will have precedence to point to when denying better formulated arguments.

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    Murdoch, of all people, now a champion of free speech?

    It never ceases to amaze me how completely absurd the US is.

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    He really wants to make sure everyone knows about his ties to his buddy Epstein doesn’t he? Or maybe he is that stupid.

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    I feel like I’m watching one of those movies whose major third act twist you see coming from the opening scene but like, your 67 year old mom/grandmother is actually shocked by and gets so angry they want to leave the theater, and you can try to point out all the obvious signs telegraphing who the real killer is but some people just can not accept a story where the bad guy is pretending to be a normal human

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    I can’t wait for discovery and Trump being forced to do a deposition. That worked so well for him in the past.

    Honestly, I feel like somehow they’re just going to settle out of court and he’ll get a few million sent his way for no apparent reason.

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    remember clinton wanting to be known as the education president. So many options for this guy. The litigious president, the graft president, the unqualified president, it just goes on and on.