A source familiar with the trip told The Independent that the vice president spoke to both Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, as well as a group of executives from the right-wing network

Vice President JD Vance reportedly met with News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch just hours before the Wall Street Journal published a surprise story about the friendship between President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

US Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha on Tuesday flew to Montana to reportedly meet Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the Wall Street Journal. The development came a day before the outlet published its sensational piece about Donald Trump and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson explains why Trump's lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch and News Corp came as such a surprise to her. "These two guys need each other," Carlson said on The Weekend. "I mean,

Trump filed the suit on Friday, accusing the Murdoch-owned paper of “glaring failures in journalistic ethics and standards of accurate reporting,” after the publication of a story about a gift Trump supposedly gave Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday.

It was Sunday afternoon, the sun was shining, and Donald Trump had gathered a collection of his allies in his luxury suite to watch the Fifa Club World Cup final.

The litigious president is threatening to sue the News Corp mogul in his latest shot at media coverage he dislikes

The president said he personally told the Fox Corp mogul the story was a ”scam” and warned him not to print it. “But he did, and now I’m going to sue his ass off,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump's lawsuit against WSJ may backfire—because it will mute Fox News hosts and weaken his anti-media attacks just when he needs them most.