Trump Refiles $10 Billion Lawsuit Against The Wall Street Journal

An earlier version of the defamation suit, which focused on an article about a birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, was dismissed by a judge.

President Trump on Wednesday refiled his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the publisher of The Wall Street Journal over an article about a birthday book greeting to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A judge had dismissed Mr. Trump’s previous complaint.

The amended complaint, like the original, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Judge Darrin P. Gayles had thrown out Mr. Trump’s first lawsuit in April, saying the president had not plausibly shown that The Journal published the article with “actual malice,” a legal standard that public officials must meet in defamation cases. To meet that standard, the publication had to have either known that what it was publishing was false or acted with reckless disregard to the truth.