Dismissal Order Amended In Trump $10B Wall Street Journal Defamation Suit

( May 26, 2026, 3:01 PM EDT) -- MIAMI — A Florida federal judge on May 22 issued an amended order “to correct scrivener’s errors” and dismiss without prejudice a suit filed by President Donald J. Trump seeking $10 billion in damages and alleging that he was defamed when the Wall Street Journal (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 that Trump failed to “plausibly” allege that the article was published with “actual malice,” a requirement for public figure defamation claims; the current order supersedes an April 13 order....