Trump Blow as Judge Tosses Epstein Lawsuit Against Murdoch Paper

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A federal judge tossed out Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal after the newspaper published the president’s alleged birthday letter to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Obama-appointed Judge Darrin Gayles said that the president came “nowhere close” to showing the newspaper acted with actual malice toward him.

Trump, 79, had sued the publication for $10 billion after it published the letter and a drawing of a nude figure it reported he sent to Epstein for his birthday.

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