Donald Trump has filed a $10bn (£7.5bn) lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal's parent company Dow Jones and its owner Rupert Murdoch over claims that he wrote a "bawdy" note to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump hosted NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdoch at the FIFA Club World Cup Final just days before The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had written a "bawdy" birthday letter to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for Epstein's 50th birthday.

If Donald Trump's defamation suit doesn't settle, the discovery process could raise more questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

It was Sunday afternoon, the sun was shining, and Donald Trump had gathered a collection of his allies in his luxury suite to watch the Fifa Club World Cup final.

The two are constrained by the thing that has kept them linked for a decade: their shared reliance on Fox News die-hards.

Donald Trump’s original White House strategist Steve Bannon still insists the “deep state” runs the world. And while he has many questions, he has few answers.

The Epstein story, currently fracturing the Trump coalition, is now poised to pit two NewsCorp properties against each other.

President Trump and Rupert Murdoch's on-again, off-again relationship hit a new wall Thursday after the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal reported that a racy birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein bore Trump's name — despite Trump urging Murdoch to kill the story.

If Rupert Murdoch becomes a white knight standing up to a rampantly bullying US president, the world has moved into the upside-down. This is, after all, the media mogul whose US television network, Fox News,