
US Judge Darrin Gayles has definitively rejected Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal newspaper.
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Trump filed a lawsuit against the newspaper and its owner in 2025 over WSJ's Jeffrey Epstein-related news.
Another rejection came from the court for the lawsuit filed by US President Donald Trump against the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) newspaper, which reported that he had "connections" with Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in prison while he was on trial for allegedly running a prostitution network for underage girls.
US District Judge Darrin Gayles ruled that Trump's claims that WSJ insulted him with the news published in 2025 had no legal basis.
Gayles stated that Trump's claims were "conclusive, vague, sometimes contradictory to the news, and often irrelevant" and noted that there was not enough evidence provided to show that the newspaper deliberately published the news untruthfully.
WITH THIS DECISION, THE ROAD TO FILE A LAWSUIT AGAIN IS CLOSED
The judge also rejected the previous version of the case in April, but gave Trump the right to reapply. This time, Gayles refused, which did not allow him to reopen the case.
A spokesman for Trump's legal team stated that they would appeal the decision.
WSJ claimed that Epstein's girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, asked her acquaintances to write a letter to her on the occasion of Epstein's 50th birthday, and one of these letters belonged to Trump. Thereupon, Trump filed a lawsuit against WSJ and its owner Murdoch in 2025.
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