Judge dismisses Trump's $10 billion suit against The Wall Street Journal over the Epstein birthday letter

Summary

A federal judge has dismissed President Donald Trump's multibillion-dollar lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a story reporting on Trump's ties to financier Jeffrey Epstein, The Philadelphia Inquirer, ABC News and the LA Times reported on Saturday 31 October, the Inquirer and ABC News headlining 'Grasping at straws'. In a 20-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami dismissed the suit with prejudice, finding that the president did not prove the defendants made defamatory statements with actual malice, CBS News and PBS NewsHour reported, and the Inquirer explained that a case thrown out with prejudice cannot be refiled. The NY Times and NBC News put the defamation suit at $10 billion, The NY Times writing that it focused on an article about a birthday note to Epstein and was the president's second attempt to claim the publication had acted with actual malice, and NBC News that the judge tossed a revised version of the suit over a story about a birthday card Trump allegedly sent Epstein more than two decades ago.

Latest: A federal judge dismissed President Donald Trump's lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over a story on Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein, The Philadelphia Inquirer, ABC News and the LA Times reported, CBS News, PBS NewsHour and CNBC saying it was dismissed with prejudice, PBS NewsHour that U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles ruled the president did not prove actual malice, and The NY Times and NBC News putting the suit at $10 billion.

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