Trump's lawsuit against Wall Street Journal archived

A federal judge dismissed Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch regarding an article about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Trump claimed the article falsely attributed an obscene letter to him, seeking $10 billion in damages. Judge Darrin Gayles ruled that Trump failed to prove the defendants acted with actual malice. The case was permanently dismissed, preventing any future re-filing. The article in question described a suggestive letter allegedly written by Trump, which surfaced in a 2003 album for Epstein's birthday. Trump denied authorship and labeled the article as false and defamatory.