A federal judge dismissed President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, finding the president failed to show the outlet demonstrated “actual malice” when it published a letter Trump allegedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida last year, after WSJ published a story that included a crude birthday card Trump allegedly wrote to Epstein. The letter was part of a collection of similar birthday notes written by friends of the late disgraced financier and sex trafficker for his 50th birthday in 2003. Trump has denied the authenticity of the letter, while the outlet has stood by its reporting.
U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, declined to address whether the article at the center of the lawsuit is factual and true, but instead dismissed the lawsuit on Monday because the president failed to
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