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President Donald Trump's legal team made several grave errors in their new $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp and Rupert Murdoch, according to an attorney who specializes in First Amendment law.

In a thread posted to his X account Friday, Atlanta, Georgia-based lawyer Andrew Fleischman predicted that Trump's lawsuit will be promptly thrown out due to multiple glaring issues. Chiefly, Trump filed the lawsuit in federal court in the Southern District of Florida. While he may have done so as a means of drawing U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon — the Trump appointee who officially scuttled former DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case against Trump last July — Fleischman pointed out that Florida has an anti-SLAPP statute [Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation] that will doom Trump's litigation.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that it will reduce its workforce by more than 3,700 and abolish its stand-alone science branch, moves that one group of former EPA officials warned will "gut" research and enforcement and "leave communities unprotected."

The EPA said the personnel cuts—which will be achieved via layoffs, voluntary early retirements, and other measures—will deliver $748.8 million in savings.

A former Fox News anchor just put President Donald Trump on notice in his new war on her old employer.

Gretchen Carlson, a former "Fox and Friends" host who in 2016 made headlines by filing a high-profile sexual harassment lawsuit against then-Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, joined CNN on Friday evening to discuss the president's newly released lawsuit against her former employer.

Troops in the California National Guard are speaking out to The New York Times about their loss of confidence in the mission President Donald Trump called them up for.

Trump deployed the Guard to Los Angeles to crack down on protests against ICE deportation sweeps in the city, and later deployed the Marines as well. A federal judge initially blocked the move after the California government sued, but an appeals court allowed it to move forward.

A CNN legal analyst warned President Donald Trump that two of his new legal actions in the Jeffrey Epstein saga will likely fail — and one could spectacularly backfire.

Trump's Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge to make some grand jury testimony public in the Epstein case.

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.

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.

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.