# A US federal judge has dismissed president Donald Trump’s 165.26-billion-rand defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch. He launched the lawsuit after the Wall Street Journal published a letter it claimed Trump wrote to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. Trump claimed the letter was fake. Judge Darrin Gayles said Trump came nowhere close to showing the Journal acted with actual malice towards him. Gayles dismissed the lawsuit without prejudice, and Trump has until April 27 to file an amended complaint.
A judge has dismissed Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal