Judge Dismisses In Part Trump $10B Defamation Suit Against Wall Street Journal

( April 13, 2026, 2:41 PM EDT) -- MIAMI — A Florida federal judge on April 13 granted in part and dismissed without prejudice a motion filed by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), its holding company, the company’s owner and its CEO and two reporters in a suit filed by President Donald J. Trump seeking $10 billion in damages and alleging that he was defamed when the WSJ published and then republished on the WSJ X account “to all 20,800,000 of its followers” a story on a purported “bawdy” card Trump allegedly sent to now-deceased Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday, finding in part that Trump failed to “plausibly allege” that the article was published with “actual malice,” a requirement for public figure defamation claims....