A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal.
Florida-based US District Judge Darrin Gayles, an Obama appointee, gave President Trump a chance to refile the lawsuit.
Trump’s legal team told Fox News that it will refile the lawsuit.
“President Trump will follow Judge Gayles’ ruling and guidance to refile this powerhouse lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and all of the other Defendants. The President will continue to hold accountable those who traffic in fake news to mislead the American people,” a spokesman for Trump’s legal team told Fox News Digital.
Fox News reported:
President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over a story on his ties to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was dismissed by a federal judge on Monday.
Trump filed the lawsuit last year after The Wall Street Journal published a July article claiming Trump signed a sexually suggestive letter that was included in a 2003 album compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday. The letter was subsequently released publicly by Congress, which subpoenaed the records from Epstein’s estate.
U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Florida wrote in the order that Trump had failed to make the argument that the article was published with the intent to be malicious, but he gave the president a chance to file an amended complaint.
Last July, President Trump filed a libel lawsuit against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and two Wall Street Journal reporters after the Wall Street Journal dropped a Jeffrey Epstein hit piece.
The case was filed in a Miami federal court.
The Wall Street Journal dropped a ‘hit piece’ on President Trump last summer.
According to the hit piece published by The Wall Street Journal, President Trump wrote Jeffrey Epstein a “bawdy” letter for his 50th birthday depicting a naked woman.
President Trump denied he wrote the letter.
Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly prepared a ‘special gift’ and collected letters written from Trump and other people.
President Trump on Monday issued a statement on Truth Social.
“Our powerful case against The Wall Street Journal, and other defendants, was asked to be re-filed by the Judge. It is not a termination, it is a suggested re-filing, and we will be, as per the Order, re-filing an updated lawsuit on or before April 27th. President DONALD J. TRUMP” Trump said on Truth Social.
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