Donald Trump says the Wall Street Journal and its billionaire owner Rupert Murdoch want to settle the US president's defamation lawsuit against the newspaper.

P resident Donald Trump is seeking an expedited deposition from News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch within the next 15 days as part of his defamation lawsuit against Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal.

Donald Trump said on Tuesday the Wall Street Journal and its billionaire owner Rupert Murdoch want to settle the U.S. president's defamation lawsuit against the newspaper. On July 18, Trump sued the Journal and its owners,

Per a joint agreement, Murdoch is due to provide health updates to Trump, who is suing him and others over a Jeffrey Epstein-related story in The Wall Street Journal.

A judge approved Rupert Murdoch’s agreement to give Donald Trump regular updates on his health as part of a deal to delay the media mogul’s deposition indefinitely in a $10 billion libel suit the president filed over a Wall Street Journal report tying him to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

The president sued the newspaper and its owners over an article detailing a lewd birthday message he allegedly wrote to the disgraced financier in 2003.

Trump sued Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal for libel after it published an article tying the president to a raunchy letter that was sent to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday.

The president sued Mr. Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal for an article last month. The president’s lawyers had asked for Mr. Murdoch to be deposed within 15 days.

While the president previously pushed Rupert Murdoch for an expedited deposition, he has now agreed to a delayed one.