President Donald Trump has been dealt an early blow in his libel lawsuit against media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal. The case was assigned to a federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama.

U.S. President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Friday against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters, raising claims under federal libel law, court records show. A copy of the complaint was not immediately available.

President Trump is under increasing pressure to have the Justice Department release files about the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Following The Wall Street Journal ‘s bombshell report on a birthday letter Donald Trump allegedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein, the president sued the newspaper’s parent company, News Corp., Dow Jones (its publisher), two reporters for the Journal, and billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who owns News Corp. owner.

Donald Trump sued the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones in federal court on Friday, according to Reuters. The lawsuit seeks $10 billion per count over a report linking him to Jeffrey Epstein. Legal experts say the case may be dismissed because Trump did not comply with Florida’s five-day notice rule for defamation suits.

President Donald Trump sued Dow Jones & Co., News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch for libel, according to court records.The lawsuit comes a day after the Wall Street Journal published a story alleging that Trump once sent a suggestive birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.