President Donald Trump, 79, speculated on Tuesday whether Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch, 94, actually controlled the newspaper—one day after he demanded the 94-year-old be deposed in the $10 billion lawsuit he’s bringing against the paper.

Trump claims WSJ ‘wants to settle’ $10B lawsuit over alleged ‘wonderful secret’ birthday message to Epstein - The president says he ‘assumes’ that his once-former ally and right-wing media mogul Ruper

Trump sued the Journal, owned by Murdoch, in U.S. District Court in southern Florida on July 18 for its story reporting on the Republican president’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and alleged child sex trafficker who died in a New York jail in 2019 before trial.

President Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal has gotten personal. The president claims he personally told the media mogul claims he'd penned a bawdy birthday message for Jeffrey Epstein two decades prior were fake,

Trump has repeatedly denied writing the letter and creating a drawing. Now, his lawyers are asking a U.S. court for Murdoch to sit for a deposition within 15 days — suggesting that the media titan could either be too ill or die before the case is normally expected to go to trial.

Rupert Murdoch is eyeing a JD Vance presidency in his final “kingmaker” act, as his papers prepare to go to war with Donald Trump, observers believe.A private meeting between Murdoch and Vance, days before the President served the media mogul with a $10bn (£7.