Judge Dismisses Trump’s Wall Street Journal Suit Again — SkimNews
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- Trump sued the Wall Street Journal over its 2025 report, alleging defamation.
- Wall Street Journal reported that a 2003 birthday letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was purportedly written by Trump.
- Federal judge dismissed Trump’s claims for a second time, saying the suit “falls short of pleading actual,” with the quoted legal standard cut off in the supplied text.
Why it matters: Trump’s complaint failed again at the pleading stage, so the judge did not accept his defamation challenge to the Wall Street Journal’s 2025 report about the 2003 Epstein letter. The quoted ruling concerns the complaint’s legal sufficiency, not whether the letter itself was authentic.
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