A federal judge on April 13 dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, ruling that he failed to demonstrate that the outlet acted with actual malice.
In a 17-page decision, Judge Darrin Gayles of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida found that the newspaper did not commit libel in its July 2025 article concerning a birthday letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that it alleged Trump signed.
