A federal judge in Florida has tossed a revised version of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal over a story about a birthday card he allegedly sent Jeffrey Epstein more than two decades ago.
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By dismissing the suit with prejudice, Trump can't file another amended version in district court. Trump's legal team said the president plans to appeal.
The defamation suit focused on an article about a birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein. It was the president’s second attempt to claim the publication had acted with actual malice.
Voters in half of the country will decide who sits on the bench of their state’s highest court next Tuesday.
In a 20-page ruling, U. S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami dismissed the suit with prejudice, ruling that President Trump did not prove the defendants made defamatory statements with actual malice.