Trump sued the Journal and others for reporting a letter in Epstein’s 2003 birthday album that carried his name and a drawing. Judge Darrin Gayles dismissed the case with prejudice on Saturday. He said the complaint did not plausibly allege actual malice and called the effort grasping at straws to manufacture flaws in the paper’s work. The same judge had dismissed an earlier version without prejudice. Trump denied writing the letter. The order does not decide whether he wrote it. His side says it will appeal.
🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge has DISMISSED Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his alleged birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.
The judge dismissed the case WITH PREJUDICE, meaning Trump cannot simply refile the lawsuit in the same… pic.twitter.com/Hd9euPzKJm
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) October 31, 2026
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwr5yj2lj9myo
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/31/judge-dismisses-trump-lawsuit-wall-street-journal-epstein
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