President Donald Trump on Friday sued media mogul Rupert Murdoch over the Wall Street Journal ’s recent investigative reporting that said Trump sent his then-friend Jeffrey Epstein a “bawdy” letter for Epstein’s 50th birthday. It’s the first time that Trump has targeted a media organization with legal action as sitting president.

The lawsuit , filed with the federal court in the Southern District of Florida, names Murdoch, his company News Corp, and its CEO Robert Thomson , the Journal’s publisher, Dow Jones & Co., and the two reporters who wrote the article published Thursday— Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo . This is the latest escalation in Trump’s legal battles with news outlets that he claims have been unfair to him.

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