President Donald Trump urged a judge to let him continue a $US10 billion ($15.4 billion) libel lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch over a Wall Street Journal article claiming he sent a bawdy birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein , saying the news outlet still hasn’t been able to prove the letter is real.

An identical birthday note handed over to the House Oversight Committee by the Epstein estate does not prove that Trump actually wrote and sent the letter, the president’s lawyer said in a filing urging the court to deny Murdoch and News Corp’s request to dismiss the case.

“On the contrary, the defendants’ reliance on a purported letter released over a month after the complaint was filed proves that defendants did not actually possess, or even review, any purported letter before publishing t

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