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Judge dismisses Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit over Jeffrey Epstein birthday card story
NBC News • • general
Key Points:
- A federal judge in Florida dismissed President Donald Trump’s revised $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, ruling that Trump failed to show the paper published the story with "actual malice."
- The lawsuit centered on a Journal article about a birthday card allegedly sent by Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, which Trump denied and claimed was fabricated by the paper.
- The judge ruled the amended complaint must be dismissed with prejudice, noting this was Trump’s second failed attempt to meet the legal standard for defamation.
- The Journal’s attorneys argued the story was substantially true, highlighted Trump’s denial within the article, and maintained that sending a bawdy birthday card is not inherently defamatory.
- Epstein’s estate later released a copy of the card matching the Journal’s description, while Ghislaine Maxwell confirmed assembling the birthday book but could not recall Trump’s involvement.
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