Judge Again Dismisses Trump’s Defamation Suit — SkimNews
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- Federal judge dismissed Trump’s defamation claims against the Wall Street Journal for a second time.
- Wall Street Journal published the 2025 report that prompted the defamation suit.
- Birthday letter dated 2003 was the document the report said was purportedly written by Trump and addressed to convicted sex offender Epstein.
- Judge’s reasoning included the statement that Trump’s lawsuit “falls short of pleading actual”; the supplied excerpt ends before the quotation is completed.
Why it matters: Trump’s second loss gives the Wall Street Journal a procedural victory over the suit challenging its 2025 Epstein-letter reporting. The quoted ground is a pleading failure, so the dismissal establishes no factual finding about whether the 2003 letter was authentic.
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