Wall Street Journal calls Trump lawsuit 'affront' to free speech in dismissal request

The Wall Street Journal filed a motion to dismiss President Donald Trump‘s lawsuit against it on Monday, calling Trump’s action an “affront” on the First Amendment.

Trump sued the outlet’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, its publisher, Dow Jones & Company, and two reporters who wrote a story regarding Trump’s relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in July. A central part of the story focused on a birthday letter Trump allegedly wrote to Epstein in 2003, though the president called the story “false, malicious, and defamatory.”