Judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit against Wall Street Journal and Murdoch
Politics · First reported 31 Oct, 20:00 · Updated 20:16
A federal judge dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over the paper’s reporting on Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The judge ruled that Trump had not shown the defendants acted with actual malice.
- U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles dismissed the case with prejudice on Saturday.
- The judge ruled that Trump had not proved the defendants made defamatory statements with actual malice.
- The lawsuit concerned a Wall Street Journal story about a sexually suggestive letter bearing Trump’s name, which the paper said was in an album made for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003.
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- U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles
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- Dismissed with prejudice
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- Trump did not prove actual malice
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- A Journal report about a letter said to bear Trump’s name and appear in an album for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003
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