A US judge has dismissed a case against the publisher of the Wall Street Journal over a story about ties the US president had to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump sued the American newspaper and its owners including Rupert Murdoch in a Florida federal court last summer, asking for at least $10b (£7.4bn) in damages.
The president claimed the newspaper defamed him in a 17 July report that said Trump's name was in a "birthday book" given to Epstein in 2003. In that message, the Journal reported, Trump included a drawing of a woman's body.
Trump said it was "a fake thing" and denied writing it.
US District Judge Darrin Gayles said Trump came "nowhere close" to showing the WSJ acted with actual malice towards him.
