A Miami judge dismissed former President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, characterizing the legal challenge as "grasping at straws."
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A Miami judge dismissed former President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, characterizing the legal challenge as "grasping at straws."
A judge in Miami threw out Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch, saying the president was “grasping at straws” in challenging reporting on a birthday letter sent to Jeffrey Epstein. The president's defamation case against The Wall Street Journal fits a pattern of frivolous litigation aimed at punishing speech that irks him.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the story as "Judge tosses Trump’s $10B lawsuit over Epstein letter." Reason reported the story as "Trump's Dismissed Epstein Letter Lawsuit Is the Latest Example of His Failure To State Cognizable Claims."
2 sources have covered this story, including St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Reason. The earliest reporting in the cluster landed about 7 hours ago.
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