Judge Dismisses Trumps Wall Street Journal Defamation Lawsuit Over Published Epstein Birthday Book for a Second Time

A federal judge has once again dismissed President Donald Trumps defamation claims against the Wall Street Journal over a 2025 report by the paper that a 2003 birthday letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was purportedly written by Trump. Trumps lawsuit falls short of pleading actual malice, wrote U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles []