The network has sparingly covered the defamation lawsuit the president filed against its corporate sibling News Corp and the Wall Street Journal.

Semafor's Ben Smith on Monday's "Morning Joe" addressed the current feud between President Donald Trump and Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch. JOE SCARBOROUGH, 'MORNING JOE' HOST: Ben, we didn't even ask you about actually the most fascinating part of this story that's come out the past four days,

President Trump has turned on his longtime on-again, off-again ally, Rupert Murdoch. He filed a $10 billion dollar lawsuit against Murdoch and his company Newscorp after the Wall Street Journal’s report on Trump’s alleged racy birthday letter to Epstein in 2003.

The federal judge randomly assigned to oversee Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal is a former federal prosecutor appointed to the bench by Barack Obama.

Legal experts say US defamation laws make cases brought forward by public figures "extremely" difficult for them to win.

As corporations pay shakedown settlements, the 94-year-old right-wing media mogul has an opportunity to resist Trump’s assaults on the First Amendment.

Vice President JD Vance met with Rupert Murdoch in Montana shortly before the Wall Street Journal published a story linking Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein. The report triggered Trump’s anger and a $10 billion lawsuit.

Murdoch says that when he saw that the Woodbridge Animal Shelter had two cats named “Matt” and “Murdoch” up for adoption, it just made sense. “They were named after…Daredevil, the superhero, because they’re blind,” Murdoch says.