President Donald Trump this week refiled a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, which also names its owner and two reporters as defendants, for its reporting on a birthday letter allegedly signed and sent to deceased sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. Photo by Al Drago/UPI | License Photo
May 28 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump this week refiled a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal related to its reporting on a birthday letter that he allegedly sent to deceased sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump refiled the $10 billion lawsuit on Wednesday, which he initially filed in July 2025 after the Wall Street Journal published an article about a birthday book collected for Epstein that included a letter and drawing he allegedly contributed, The New York Times reported.
A federal judge in Florida dismissed the suit in April, which was filed against both the newspaper and its owner, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, because Trump's attorneys failed to show that "actual malice" had been committed against him.
Although Judge Darrin Gayles ruled that the Journal had not published the article with malice -- a higher bar to prove because Trump is a public figure -- he ruled that Trump would be able to refile the lawsuit after April 27.
