US Judge Dismisses Trump's Defamation Suit Against WSJ
A US judge threw out Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its owner Rupert Murdoch. The case was over a report about a letter Trump sent to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. The judge found that Trump's legal team had not shown the paper acted with actual malice, meaning it knew a claim was false or ignored that it might be.
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Context: Jeffrey Epstein, a financier convicted of sex offences, died in jail in 2019, and his links to powerful people have stayed in the news. Public figures suing for defamation in the US must meet a high bar set by a 1964 Supreme Court ruling.
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