Trump Appeals Judge’s Dismissal of $10 Billion Wall Street Journal Defamation Suit
The legal move comes days after Judge Darrin P. Gayles dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice The post Trump Appeals Judge’s Dismissal of $10 Billion Wall Street Journal Defamation Suit appeared first on TheWrap .
Donald Trump sought permission to appeal a judge's decision to dismiss his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch. The complaint, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, alleged the court improperly dismissed the suit on October 31, 2026. The president's legal team claimed the ruling was final and barred further legal action.
The WSJ published a purported birthday card with alleged signatures and comments from Trump to financier Jeffrey Epstein in September 2025. Trump denied authoring the message, stating he "never wrote a picture in my life" and accusing the outlet of fabricating the story. The judge ruled Trump's team was "grasping at straws" attempting to fabricate evidence of actual malice in the original WSJ report.
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