A Florida federal judge has dismissed President Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over its report on a lewd drawing he allegedly contributed as part of a gift to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, stating that no proof of malice was evident in the case.
In the order dismissing the lawsuitbrought against the explosive news story’s reporters, the paper, its parent company, News Corp, and even Rupert Murdoch, U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles wrote that Trump’s legal team had failed to argue that the article was published by those named in the complaint with malicious intent.
Judge Gayles, however, did not rule on the veracity of the Journal’s article or whether the facts in it are true and therefore not defamatory toward the president; attorneys for the paper and Murdoch had sought such a determination and for the case
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