Judge Dismisses Trump’s $10B Wall Street Journal Defamation Suit With Prejudice

( November 2, 2026, 2:10 PM EST) -- MIAMI — A Florida federal judge on Oct. 31 dismissed with 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 defendants “acted with actual malice when they published an article in the Wall Street Journal linking him to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.”...