Trump’s $10 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Against WSJ, Murdoch Dismissed With Prejudice
Judge Darrin P. Gayles has put an end to the president's legal battle after the Wall Street Journal published his alleged birthday messages to Jeffrey Epstein last year The post Trump’s $10 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Against WSJ, Murdoch Dismissed With Prejudice appeared first on TheWrap .
President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and publisher Rupert Murdoch has been dismissed with prejudice, effectively ending the year-long legal battle. Judge Darrin P. Gayles ruled that Trump failed to prove any defamatory comments were made with actual malice, dismissing his first amended complaint.
The lawsuit began in July 2025 after the Journal published what Trump claimed were his 50th birthday messages to Jeffrey Epstein from 2003, which he later amended in April 2026 after the initial suit was dismissed for being "nowhere close" to defamation. Trump's team was described as "grasping at straws" in an attempt to "manufacture" flaws in the initial WSJ report.
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