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. A copy of the complaint was not immediately available.

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

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

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