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Judge throws out Trump lawsuit against Wall Street Journal over Epstein birthday letter
Saying the US president was “grasping at straws”, a federal judge on Saturday threw out Donald Trump’s US$10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a story reporting on his ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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All three outlets lead with the lawsuit being dismissed, and all three tie it to the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, and the Epstein-related story. Axios frames the item as a lawsuit being “tossed” and adds that it is the second court block this year; The Independent alone spells out that the judge permanently threw out the defamation case and quotes the lack of “actual malice”; CNBC alone says it was dismissed “with prejudice.”
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