Trump files new $10B lawsuit against Wall Street Journal publisher

[The Wall Street Journal sign in its building]
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* President Donald Trump on Wednesday filed a revised lawsuit against the publisher of _The Wall Street Journal_, after a judge dismissed an earlier complaint that alleged he was defamed by an article about a birthday letter to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
* U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles, based in Miami, had given Trump until May 27 to file a new complaint. The judge dismissed Trump’s original lawsuit after finding it didn’t sufficiently allege “actual malice,” a legal standard that requires proof that defendants published a story with knowledge it was false or with reckless disregard for the truth, _WSJ_ reported [https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-files-revised-defamation-lawsuit-against-wsj-publisher-3c944f80].
* The lawsuit is one of several Trump has brought in his personal capacity against news organizations, part of what critics say is a wider pressure campaign against the ‌media.
* Trump's lawsuit ⁠said the ⁠Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper tarnished his reputation with an article describing a birthday card to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as bearing Trump's signature. ​Trump and his lawyers said the card is fake, even after it was released by lawmakers investigating Epstein's case.

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