Donald Trump has sued Rupert Murdoch and his media companies over a Wall Street Journal report on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Vice President JD Vance met with Rupert Murdoch in Montana shortly before the Wall Street Journal published a story linking Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein. The report triggered Trump’s anger and a $10 billion lawsuit.

As corporations pay shakedown settlements, the 94-year-old right-wing media mogul has an opportunity to resist Trump’s assaults on the First Amendment.

If Rupert Murdoch becomes a white knight standing up to a rampantly bullying US president, the world has moved into the upside-down. This is, after all, the media mogul whose US television network, Fox News,

The Epstein story, currently fracturing the Trump coalition, is now poised to pit two NewsCorp properties against each other.