A federal judge dismissed Donald Trump‘s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch and others, ruling that the president’s claim fails to “adequately allege actual malice.”
U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles will allow the president to file an amended complaint.
He wrote, “The lawsuit raises many questions of fact and law about the publication’s account of events, journalistic integrity, and the First Amendment’s protection of sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. However, most of those questions are for another day.”
Last summer, the Journal reported on a letter in Trump’s name that was included in an album given to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003. The letter, the Journal reported, “contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker,” adding that a “pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the
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