Trump Hit With Blistering Filing in Epstein Lawsuit

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The Wall Street Journal asked a judge to dismiss Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the paper “once and for all” in a blistering court filing accusing the president of attempting to “subvert” the First Amendment with his Epstein-related suit.

The Journal published a bombshell report in July 2025 alleging that Trump had sent a graphic 50th birthday letter to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that was included in a book compiled by https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-calls-in-ghislaine-maxwell-for-a-favor-in-10b-lawsuit/" rel="">Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003.

Trump denied writing the letter and sued the Journal and its Rupert Murdoch-controlled parent company for $10 billion for defamation, only to have the case https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-blow-as-judge-tosses-epstein-lawsuit-against-murdoch-paper/" rel="">thrown out in April for coming “nowhere close” to pleading actual malice, the standard required for a public figure to bring a successful suit.

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