April 13 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Florida dismissed President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch because Trump's team didn't show "actual malice."
Because Trump is a public figure, he must prove malice in a defamation suit.
The case centers on a July 2024 Journal article that alleged that Trump wrote a bawdy birthday letter to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump sued the paper for defamation in September. The Journal asked the judge to toss the case.
Judge Darrin Gayles of the District Court in Miami said that Trump had "not plausibly alleged that the Defendants published the Article with actual malice."
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