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‘Grasping at straws’: Judge dismisses Trump’s $14b lawsuit against WSJ

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) •
November 01, 2026 • 05:24 AM
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Judge Darrin Gayles first tossed the suit in April for lacking evidence, but he gave the US president a chance to file a new one with beefed-up claims.

‘Grasping at straws’: Judge dismisses Trump’s $14b lawsuit against WSJ

New York | A federal judge threw out Donald Trump’s renewed $US10 billion ($14.2 billion) defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and ruled that it can’t be filed again, marking another setback for the president’s legal fights with the press.

Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami on Saturday (Sunday AEDT) granted the Journal ’s request to dismiss the suit. The newspaper was accused in the complaint of defaming Trump in an article saying that Trump once sent a suggestive birthday letter to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

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