# Judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit against Wall Street Journal over Epstein birthday book

https://mins.news/en/item/124261

- BBC News, 2026-11-01 00:41 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwr5yj2lj9myo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> A US judge dismissed Donald Trump’s $10bn lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and its parent company over the paper’s report on a letter purportedly written by Trump to Jeffrey Epstein for a birthday book. The judge said Trump’s team had not shown actual malice and barred the case from being filed again.

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