The Wall Street Journal's owner, Rupert Murdoch, asked the court to toss the lawsuit from President Donald Trump over the Journal's report about the so-called "birthday book" for Jeffrey Epstein, Bloomberg Law reported.

The report said that Trump drew an outline of a woman and typed up a little script for a conversation between the two men where they shared a "secret."

Trump called it a lie and sued not only the Journal but its parent company, NewsCorp, and owner Murdoch personally, for $10 billion.

Since the lawsuit, the book was turned over to Congress and released to the public, with the page spreading across the internet.

Trump denied it was his, implying that someone had falsified his signature. FBI Director Kash Patel agreed to open an investigation into the allegedly fraudulent signature.

Murdoch filed the motion Monday, asking the Miami court to dismiss the case as the report does not defame the president's character.

Murdoch attacked the lawsuit as “an affront to the First Amendment.”

Despite Trump's lawsuit, the Murdochs are being discussed as possible co-owners of the U.S. version of TikTok.

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The Trump administration's pressure on Disney and ABC to suspend late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel over his comments about slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk has caused a rift in the core constituencies that make up the president's voting base, former GOP speechwriter turned anti-Trump commentator Tim Miller told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Monday evening.

Disney made the initial decision as two of its major affiliate distributors — Sinclair Broadcast Group, known for its right-wing ownership, and Nexstar, currently seeking merger approval from Trump's Federal Communications Commission — announced they would be dropping his show. But amid a massive outpouring of fury from consumers and a long line of celebrities, Disney relented and announced he would be back on the air as of Tuesday.

"Tim, just take me inside what's happening on the MAGA right," said Wallace.

"Well, look, this is maybe a glimmer of hope," said Miller. "I love when I get to do a rare glimmer of hope on this show, Nicole. It's like, there are a bunch of issues in which the right is happy to be totally cynical and partisan about, like, nearly all of them, frankly. And we've seen that with Donald Trump, right? Or they've been willing to be lockstep with him and apologize for him no matter what his corruption is, no matter his cruelty, no matter how non-conservative he is. Tariffs, we can go down the whole list."

By contrast, he continued, "The free speech issue is just so fundamental. It's not even just Republicans, but it's society-wide. It's just such a part of the American fabric. Like anybody that's American is like, this is, it's the First Amendment, like, we are in America. We get to say what we want. Like, we don't have kings. We don't have dictators telling us to shut us up. And it's it is instinctual for a whole lot of people, not for a whole lot of people, not everybody, but a whole lot of people, and that is including some people within the Trump, within the MAGA movement."

"It includes a lot of the people who are in, like you played all the actors. It's obvious why ... all of them care about this," said Miller. "But that's also true of the podcasters, of comedians, of a lot of the manosphere folks. We talk about this. This is just essential for a lot of folks in this country, including a lot of people that supported Donald Trump. And so while they're willing to suffer a lot of other indignities and humiliations on his behalf, there's at least some minority percentage of them that start to get their back up. And it's like, hey, you're, I'm not allowed to say what I want. I'm not allowed to criticize people in power. I'm not allowed to make jokes about things."

That state of affairs, he added, "That feels very un-American. And I think it's a good sign that we've seen some pushback from within his coalition on this, from a bunch of different vectors."

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President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced, to great fanfare at a press conference on Monday, that the administration is endorsing an unproven theory that Tylenol during pregnancy increases the risk of autism.

The announcement drew a great deal of anger and criticism from commenters on social media.

" Trump is announcing an unproven link between autism and Tylenol," wrote radio host Barry Markson. "Literally just called Tylenol bad. Spreading conspiracy theories now about vaccines and autism that have been disproven for decades. Unbelievable. Trump won’t take chemicals out of food but he pushes conspiracy theories about autism and vaccines. Trump is now giving his opinion on other vaccines that have no medical or scientific support. Unbelievable."

"Trump claims Cuba 'has virtually no autism' because they 'don’t have Tylenol,'" wrote the progressive account Call to Activism. "Reality: Dictatorships don’t have good health data. Autism exists everywhere — authoritarian regimes just don’t track it. F--- Donald Trump and his lies."

"Trump's deranged, pro-death takes on medicine and autism are giving me a headache and forcing me to take a Tylenol," wrote former CNN contributor Wajahat Ali.

"Depriving women of the only pain reliever that's considered safe in pregnancy on the basis of an extremely dubious autism link is not going to help meet any of the Trump administration's pro-natalist goals," pointed out analyst Matt Yglesias.

"So we learned today from medical experts Trump and RFK Jr that people in CA are more likely to get autism and Amish people are immune but I’m not sure what happens if an Amish person goes to CA," wrote former GOP strategist turned progressive Meidas Touch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski.