Source: USA Today
“A judge dismissed President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal for alleging he sent Jeffrey Epstein a lewd birthday note but said Trump may amend the lawsuit and refile it within two weeks. … Florida federal Judge Darrin P. Gayles ruled Trump didn’t make a plausible allegation in his lawsuit that The Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, published the story with ‘actual malice,’ a legal term referring to publishing something while either knowing it was false or with a reckless disregard for whether it was false.” (04/13/26)