Erik LarsonJun 11, 2026 – 5.27pmWashington | The Wall Street Journal asked a judge to dismiss President Donald Trump’s revised $US10 billion ($14.3 billion) defamation lawsuit over an article on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, arguing that the new complaint wasn’t an improvement on the original version that was tossed out.Trump’s revised lawsuit still failed to explain how the article — about a “bawdy” birthday note he allegedly sent to Epstein decades ago — was defamatory, the Journal said in the filing in Miami federal court on Wednesday.BloombergSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles