Trump Picks Fresh Fight With Murdoch Paper After Embarrassing Defeat

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Donald Trump has fired a fresh salvo in his war with The Wall Street Journal after https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-blow-as-judge-tosses-epstein-lawsuit-against-murdoch-paper/" rel="">a judge shot down his first attempt to sue the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper for $10 billion.

The president has refiled his earlier defamation lawsuit in Miami, Florida, after Judge Darrin P. Gayles, an Obama appointee, dismissed his first attempt for coming “nowhere close” to showing the newspaper’s reporting met the threshold for that kind of legal action.

Trump claims the Journal smeared his name by describing a birthday card and nude drawing he allegedly sent to the late pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The president was friends with the disgraced financier for at least a decade, though the two men are thought to have fallen out around 2004, a year after Trump is said to have sent the birthday card.

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