President Donald Trump is using the courts to punish media outlets for publishing stories he doesn’t like.

The latest example is a $10 billion lawsuit filed in federal court in Miami against the Wall Street Journal and its owners, including Rupert Murdoch, for publishing a story that described a sexually suggestive birthday card Trump allegedly sent to the late Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.

Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the press. Even before taking office for his first term, he began dismissing the mainstream media as “fake news,” and soon after assuming office he tweeted that the “FAKE NEWS media” is “the enemy of the American people.”

Trump has since used the courts to muzzle his critics, filing lawsuits that target media companies like CBS and ABC. Those companies have chosen to settle rather than fight, as have tech companies like Meta and X.

In his second term, Trump has also punished other outlets he dislikes, including Voice of America, the Associated Press, NPR and PBS, and Politico.

Trump also cheered the cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, a frequent critic of the Trump administration, though the network emphasized that it was “purely a financial decision.”

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