President Donald Trump‘s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over a story on a 50th birthday card he allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein has been dismissed.
United States District Judge Darrin Gayles tossed the case on Monday, April 13, after ruling Trump’s suit “comes nowhere close” to reaching the standard of actual malice.
“Because President Trump has not plausibly alleged that defendants published the article with actual malice, both counts must be dismissed,” Gayles wrote in his ruling, obtained by Us Weekly.
In order to reach the standard of actual malice, Gayles...
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