WSJ Says Trump Libel Suit Must Be Tossed ‘Once and for All’ (1)

June 11, 2026, 12:47 PM UTC

The Wall Street Journal asked a judge to dismiss President Donald Trump’s revised $10 billion defamation lawsuit over an article on his ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein, arguing that the new complaint isn’t an improvement on the original version that was tossed out.

Trump’s revised lawsuit still fails to explain how the article — about a “bawdy” birthday note he allegedly sent to the sex offender decades ago — is defamatory, the Journal said in the filing Wednesday in Miami federal court.

Trump “has now had every opportunity to plead a defamation claim,” lawyers for the newspaper ...

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