U.S. President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Friday against Dow Jones, News Corp , Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters, raising claims under federal libel law, court records show.

President Trump is under increasing pressure to have the Justice Department release files about the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The defamation lawsuit was filed in a Florida federal court.

Donald Trump has followed through on his threat to sue Rupert Murdoch and his media companies over the Wall Street Journal‘s report on a bawdy letter in his name that was included in an album given to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003.

Donald Trump's lawsuit names Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and reporters Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo as defendants.

Trump has filed a $10bn lawsuit against Robert Murdoch, Dow Jones, News Corp over a “fake” article linking him to Epstein

Trump is facing mounting pressure from his MAGA base to publicly release Justice Department files from the Epstein case.