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- A US judge dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal with prejudice on Saturday.
A US judge dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal with prejudice on Saturday. The lawsuit concerned reporting by the newspaper about Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein. US District Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami ruled that Trump did not prove the defendants made defamatory statements with actual malice, stating the lawsuit was "grasping at straws" as it attempted to "manufacture" flaws.