A federal judge in Florida has dismissed President Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, in which he claimed to have been defamed by the paper’s reporting about a note it said Trump had provided for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday celebration. The ruling was issued by Judge Darrin P. Gayles, an Obama appointee to the federal district court in South Florida, in a 17-page order on Monday.

The WSJ story, published just three days before Trump began his second (non-consecutive term) in January 2025, alleged that Trump and dozens of other Epstein friends and associates had been asked to contribute birthday

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