Judge Dismisses Trump’s Suit Against The Wall Street Journal

The judge said Mr. Trump had not “plausibly alleged” that The Journal published the article with actual malice.

A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the publisher of The Wall Street Journal over its report of his lewd birthday greeting to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Judge Darrin Gayles in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida said in his decision that Mr. Trump had not “plausibly alleged” that The Journal published the article with “actual malice,” a legal standard meaning that it knew what it was publishing was false or had acted with reckless disregard as to its accuracy.

Judge Gayles dismissed the complaint without prejudice, allowing Mr. Trump to bring the same claim again.