A federal judge has thrown out former President Donald Trump’s massive $10 billion legal action against the Wall Street Journal regarding the publication’s coverage of Jeffrey Epstein matters.
The court ruling, handed down on Monday, determined that Trump’s legal team could not successfully demonstrate that the Wall Street Journal published their report with malicious intentions. The disputed article focused on correspondence to Epstein that the publication claimed contained Trump’s signature.
According to the judge’s written decision, the former president’s attorneys were unable to establish that the newspaper’s story about the letter was created or distributed with deliberate harmful intent, which is a crucial legal standard required for such defamation cases.
The lawsuit represented one of Trump’s efforts to challenge media coverage through the court system, seeking substantial financial damages from the prominent business publication owned by News Corp.
