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Judge Throws Out Trump’s $10B Lawsuit Over Vile Epstein Card
April 13, 2026
The Daily Beast
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Photo Illustration by Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/ReutersA federal judge tossed out Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal after the newspaper published the president’s alleged birthday letter to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Obama-appointed Judge Darrin Gayles said that the president came “nowhere close” to showing the newspaper acted with actual malice toward him.
Trump, 79, had sued the publication for 10 billion after it published the letter and a drawing of a nude figure it reported he sent to Epstein for his 50th birthday. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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