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President Donald Trump unleashed a lengthy rant Friday evening, in which he insulted The Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch and the CEO of the newspaper's parent company, News Corp, as he touted what he called a "powerhouse lawsuit."

Trump took to his Truth Social app to tout his latest court action and rip the Journal over its report that he sent a risque birthday letter to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that included a doodle of a nude woman and an imagined script with Epstein in which he said the two have a lot in "common."

President Donald Trump is angling to force the Wall Street Journal's parent company to pay out a settlement without even going to trial in his lawsuit over the new explosive reporting about his alleged lewd birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, legal expert Lisa Rubin told MSNBC's Antonia Hylton on Friday.

"If his defamation case were to go that far, Donald Trump would have to sit for a deposition, exchange materials," said Rubin. "But of course, Donald Trump is counting on it never going that far, because in the two lawsuits that he's filed to date against other media organizations, he has extracted settlements from them well before those things could ever happen."

A criminal defense attorney warned Friday afternoon that embattled comedian Bill Cosby's criminal cases could come back to bite President Donald Trump in court.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper brought on attorney Bill Brennan to discuss a new filing just from Attorney General Pam Bondi, signed by Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. The filing said the reason they're taking the unusual move of releasing the grand jury testimony in the Jeffrey Epstein case is because it is in the public interest.

Allegations are starting to roll in from migrants who have been nabbed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that conditions are so brutal in the camps that one man said he was "dying, little by little."

In a post on X, ICE claimed that conditions were lavish, with "beds, warm showers, tablets, three meals a day, professional mental and physical health care."

President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for publishing this week's massive story about his salacious birthday letter to deceased financier and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein exposes him to a massive legal risk, former prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN's Jake Tapper on Friday afternoon.

The story, which Trump reportedly scrambled behind the scenes to try to stop from going public at all, details a graphic letter Trump sent that was outlined by a doodle of a naked woman. Trump claims this letter was fabricated and he doesn't make drawings of that sort, even though a number of such Trump drawings have sold at auction.

Legal expert Lisa Rubin responded to the breaking news that President Donald Trump has officially sued the Wall Street Journal and parent company News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, two reporters, and Dow Jones in the Southern District of Florida.

The Wall Street Journal published a report on a bawdy letter and drawing from two decades ago from Trump to Jeffrey Epstein as part of a 50th birthday album compiled by his girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell was convicted in 2021 for her role in a sex trafficking ring with Epstein, who killed himself in 2019.

A federal judge reportedly got into a "heated back-and-forth" with a State Department official in a Boston court Friday over the Trump administration’s loose definition of antisemitism, and how it uses it to revoke visas of international students lawfully in the country.

Speaking on behalf of the State Department was John Armstrong, a top official at the agency’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, who has been tasked with helping vet foreign students and their social media posts for potential visa revocations. The vetting process includes scrubbing through visa holders’ social media and flagging material deemed antisemitic.

President Donald Trump's administration may have just shot itself in the foot with a newly announced prisoner swap, in which he gave 250 Venezuelans who were deported to the brutal CECOT prison in El Salvador for 10 Americans jailed there.

Professor and journalist Bill Grueskin remarked on Bluesky, "But we were told that once these detainees arrived in El Salvador, the US had no control over their fates."

President Donald Trump has officially filed a libel lawsuit against News Corp, Dow Jones, Rupert Murdoch, the Wall Street Journal, and two reporters at the Journal, Reuters reported Friday afternoon.

The news comes after the Journal reported Thursday night that President Donald Trump sent a message to Jeffrey Epstein along with a drawing as part of a book celebrating his 50th birthday.

Former Republican Party spokesman Tim Miller sounded the alarm Friday that President Donald Trump is "in trouble" with a key group that helped elect him.

Not only is Trump struggling currently with his MAGA supporters, but the so-called "manosphere" is quickly abandoning him as well.

In a massive prisoner swap deal, the Trump administration got over 200 Venezuelan migrants he deported to an infamous Salvadoran megaprison released in exchange for the Venezuelan government releasing 10 American citizens and permanent residents who were being held captive in that country, reported The New York Times on Friday.

The arrests of foreigners in Venezuela began late last year, according to the report: "Among them was Lucas Hunter, now 37, a U.S. and French citizen who had traveled to Colombia to go kite surfing, according to his family. In an interview, his sister, Sophie Hunter, said he was still in Colombia — close to its border with Venezuela — when he was nabbed by the Venezuelan government in early January. She has been working for his release ever since."