A federal judge in Miami on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, News Corp, and Rupert Murdoch over the newspaper's reporting on a sexually suggestive birthday letter linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
The case centered on a Wall Street Journal report about a 2003 birthday album prepared for Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender whose long list of elite associates has remained a matter of public scrutiny for years. The newspaper reported that the album included a "bawdy" letter bearing Trump's name and signature. Trump has repeatedly denied writing the note, and argued that the Journal's reporting falsely tied him to material he says he never created.
