{"id":66852,"date":"2025-07-28T14:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T21:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66852"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:32:49","slug":"trumps-team-asks-to-depose-rupert-murdoch-soon-because-theyre-afraid-hell-die-before-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66852","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Team Asks to Depose Rupert Murdoch Soon Because They&#8217;re Afraid He&#8217;ll Die Before Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most litigious president in American history, Donald Trump, is at it again. His most recent lawsuit is a doozy that is aimed at his longtime propaganda purveyor, Rupert Murdoch, owner of the notoriously conservative Wall Street Journal, the ultra-rightist New York Post, and of course, the relentlessly Trump-fluffing Fox News.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump's Team Asks to Depose Rupert Murdoch Soon Because They're Afraid He'll Die Before Trial%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66852\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=Trump's Team Asks to Depose Rupert Murdoch Soon Because They're Afraid He'll Die Before Trial%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66852\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/murdoch-trump.jpg\" alt=\"Rupert Murdoch Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s case against the Wall Street Journal is centered on his assertion of defamation when they published a story about a birthday greeting that Trump is said to have sent to his friend, and convicted child sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. Trump claims that the story is, of course, <em>&#8220;fake news,&#8221;<\/em> and he is seeking $10 billion in damages. And in the meantime, the Snowflake-in-Chief has banned the Journal from covering his press conferences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66796\" target=\"_blank\">Scaredy Trump Kicks the Wall Street Journal Out of the Press Pool for His Next Junket Overseas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new wrinkle in this case is a motion that Trump&#8217;s attorneys have filed seeking to expedite the deposition of Murdoch. The reason they give is a particularly morbid one. As <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/07\/trump-rupert-murdoch-deposition-jeffrey-epstein-1236472211\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported by Deadline<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Trump\u2019s legal team is seeking Murdoch\u2019s deposition because of his age, 94, citing that he &#8216;has suffered from multiple health issues throughout his life, is believed to have suffered recent significant health scares.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Team Trump is asking the court to hurry up and approve their deposition before the <em>&#8220;Dirty Digger&#8221;<\/em> (as Murdoch is known) is dug six feet under. Trump&#8217;s vultures just can&#8217;t wait to put the screws to the sickly old media baron who they imply is on his last legs. That should be a fun interrogation for them, with Murdoch&#8217;s nurses in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>What they aren&#8217;t mentioning is that the attorneys for Murdoch and the Journal are also going to have opportunities to depose Trump about his unsavory relationship with Epstein, with whom he was friends for 15 years. And as part of the discovery process, they will subpoena evidence and documents, including emails, texts, surveillance videos, phone calls, bank records, etc.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Trump is mouthing off about his engagement with Epstein to reporters when he is supposed to be conducting diplomatic business. And as usual, due to his innate idiocy, he is doing himself more harm than good. During a press avail with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump drifted off into the Epstein affair and why he hasn&#8217;t released the files as he promised&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t been overly interested in it. It&#8217;s a hoax that&#8217;s been built up way beyond proportion. I can say this: Those files were run by the worst scum on earth. They were run by Comey, they were run by Garland, they were run by Biden, and all of the people that actually run the government, including the autopen. Those files were run for four years by those people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they had anything, I assume they would have released it. The whole thing is a hoax. They ran the files. I was running against somebody that ran the files. If they had something they would have released. Now, they can easily put something in the files that&#8217;s a phony [&#8230;] But those files were run by bad, sick people. If they had anything why didn&#8217;t they use it when I was killing Joe.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lv2bwltyq22o\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiama3wrfo57bj25cshyxqnv6ymblrptl7xk262m45c76f7ock3e5m\">\n<p lang=\"en\">This is pretty good proof that Trump&#39;s name is all over the Epstein files, and he knows it. That&#39;s why he continues to refuse to release them.This is also cover for when they get released, he will just lie that they were altered.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg?ref_src=embed\">News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/post\/3lv2bwltyq22o?ref_src=embed\">2025-07-28T19:05:20.697Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>WOW! That&#8217;s some world-class derangement on display. To begin with, it&#8217;s preposterous for Trump to say that he hasn&#8217;t been interested in the Epstein matter. It&#8217;s virtually all he&#8217;s been interested in. He&#8217;s having his Justice Department investigate it, including interviewing Ghislaine Maxwell in prison, and providing her limited immunity to talk.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, virtually everything else he talks about is a transparent deflection from the Epstein issue. Including a bizarre and totally fictional accusation that President Obama had committed treason for trying to change intelligence reports related to Russia&#8217;s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. And Trump regards President Biden and James Comey as <em>&#8220;the worst scum on earth,&#8221;<\/em> not pedophiles, or dictators, or drug cartels, or terrorists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66781\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s DNI and Fox News Manufacture a New Crackpot Conspiracy Theory Accusing Obama of Treason<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Trump is fabricating excuses about the files being altered. It&#8217;s a ridiculous excuse to suggest that Biden and his team went to that trouble and then never used the allegedly altered files against Trump. And if they were altered, he would have the evidence of it and could use it to prosecute Biden and company. You&#8217;d think he would be anxious to get that rolling.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, when Trump claims that <em>&#8220;If they had something they would have released it,&#8221;<\/em> raises this obvious question: If there is nothing incriminating about Trump in the files, why wouldn&#8217;t he release them? An innocent man would want exculpatory documents to made public ASAP. Clearly Trump knows that these files would hurt him, so he must suppress them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the same press gaggle&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\/post\/3luzzx6f4sc2x\" target=\"_blank\">Trump said that<\/a> he <em>&#8220;turned down&#8221;<\/em> the <em>&#8220;privilege&#8221;<\/em> of visiting Epstein Island. And, yes, he called it a privilege. Which suggests that he knew what was going on there, but never reported it to authorities. He allowed the girls to continue being victimized.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\/post\/3lv23fohiv22x\" target=\"_blank\">Trump kept open<\/a> the prospect of a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, but only after she testifies, and if she exonerates him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of this proves that Trump remains the single best source for incriminating evidence against himself. He can&#8217;t stop talking &#8211; and lying &#8211; about Epstein. And if the Wall Street Journal stands firm in defense of their reporting, Trump is going to have another load of legal liabilities dumped in his lap. Consequently, no one is more hopeful that the court allows the expedited deposition than Democrats, other Trump foes, and the popcorn lobby.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66839\" target=\"_blank\">The King of Conspiracy Theories Whines that Democrats Don\u2019t Talk Enough About How Awesome He Is<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66829\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s FCC Chair Says that CBS News Will Have to Employ a \u2018Bias Monitor\u2019 to Police Their Reporting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66809\" target=\"_blank\">Trump White House Whines About \u2018Political Disinformation\u2019 \u2013 While They Are Disseminating It<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most litigious president in American history, Donald Trump, is at it again. His most recent lawsuit is a doozy that is aimed at his longtime propaganda purveyor, Rupert Murdoch, owner of the notoriously conservative Wall Street Journal, the ultra-rightist New York Post, and of course, the relentlessly Trump-fluffing Fox News. 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