Epstein letter row: Judge rejects Trump's $10 billion defamation suit against WSJ

A federal judge in the United States on Saturday dismissed president Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal for the second time this year. The court ruled that Trump had failed to establish that the newspaper acted with “actual malice” in its reporting on an alleged birthday letter bearing his name and linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.US district Judge Darrin P Gayles, sitting in Miami, dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice, meaning Trump cannot refile the same case. Describing the president’s arguments as “grasping at straws”, the judge said the amended complaint failed to meet the legal threshold for establishing defamation.According to the Associated Press (AP), this is the second time Gayles has dismissed Trump's lawsuit this year. The judge first threw out the case in April, ruling that Trump had failed to sufficiently argue that the newspaper published the report with actual malice.