The Wall Street Journal , its parent company and Rupert Murdoch asked a federal judge to dismiss Donald Trump ‘s $10 billion defamation lawsuit over the publication’s report on the president’s past connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

“In an affront to the First Amendment, the President of the United States brought this lawsuit to silence a newspaper for publishing speech that was subsequently proven true by documents released by Congress to the American publis,” the Journal’s attorneys wrote in the motion. “By its very nature, this meritless lawsuit threatens to chill the speech of those who dare to publish content that the President does not like.”

The attorneys also challenged the notion the that the article could have damaged Trump’s reputation, noting that he had “publicly admitted

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