The Wall Street Journal filed a motion to dismiss President Donald Trump ‘s lawsuit against it on Monday, calling Trump’s action an “affront” on the First Amendment .

Trump sued the outlet’s owner, Rupert Murdoch , its publisher, Dow Jones & Company, and two reporters who wrote a story regarding Trump’s relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in July. A central part of the story focused on a birthday letter Trump allegedly wrote to Epstein in 2003, though the president called the story “false, malicious, and defamatory.”

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