Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, which he filed because the paper published his letter to Epstein, has failed.

A U.S. judge dismissed Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, labeling it as a "grasping at straws". Trump sued after the paper reported on a letter he allegedly wrote for Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book. The judge, Darrin Gayles, rejected the lawsuit for the second time, stating that Trump's denial of authorship did not constitute actual malice. The ruling emphasized that allowing such claims would undermine press freedom, as public figures could easily suppress damaging information by simply denying it.