Trump first filed the lawsuit in July 2025, seeking $20 billion in damages over the newspaper’s reporting on a birthday letter bearing his name that was allegedly given to Epstein. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
\n\nA US federal judge on Saturday dismissed President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, its parent company Dow Jones and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a report about Trump’s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
\n\nJudge Darrin Gayles of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruled that Trump had failed to establish that the newspaper acted with “actual malice” when publishing its report about his links to Epstein.
\n\nThe judge dismissed Trump’s amended complaint with prejudice, meaning he cannot refile the same lawsuit.
\n\nTrump first filed the lawsuit in July 2025, seeking $20 billion in damages over the newspaper’s reporting on a birthday letter bearing his name that was allegedly given to Epstein.
\n\nThe report described the letter as “bawdy”. Trump disputed its authenticity and maintained that it was fake.
\n\nGayles dismissed Trump’s original lawsuit in April but allowed the president to submit an amended complaint. The judge has now rejected that revised filing, finding that it failed…
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