But the reasons for their excitement will not make the president happy one bit.
The president said in a subsequent Truth Social post that he looked forward “to getting Rupert Murdoch to testify in my lawsuit against him and his ‘pile of garbage’ newspaper, the WSJ.”
However, many of the social media users looking forward to the suit moving forward pointed out that the truth is a defense in libel and defamation cases, so all the Journal has to do is prove its reporting true.
And it seems a good bet that the Journal’s lawyers went through the story about Trump and Epstein with a fine-toothed comb before it was published.
Also, Trump has previously threatened lawsuits and not followed through, presumably because the discovery process would force him to answer potentially embarrassing questions under oath.
It didn’t help his case, since he tried to suggest he had not raped Carroll because she was “not my type.”
People on social media were salivating at the thought that Trump’s lawsuit might not work out as he intended.
However, some people saw the lawsuit as Trump’s attempt to get a settlement like the $16 million he received from Paramount after he sued the company for alleged election interference by the CBS News program “60 Minutes.”
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Although many experts thought Trump’s suit had no merit, Paramount agreed to the payout as its proposed merger with Skydance Media awaits approval by the Trump administration.
One X user, @LorraineEvanoff, suspected that Trump might really be suing the Journal and Murdoch as “a staged distraction with an extra added bonus of funneling a huge pay-off to Trump by way of settlement!!!!!”