Trump files fresh $10 billion suit over WSJ's Epstein story [View all]
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump filed a new version of his $10 billion libel lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its parent company News Corp. over an article about his alleged close ties to Jeffrey Epstein, after an earlier version of the suit was tossed out by a judge.
The revised suit was filed late Wednesday in federal court in Florida, meeting a deadline set by a judge who dismissed the original complaint for lacking sufficient claims that the story was filed with “actual malice” toward Trump, a high bar set for libel suits by public figures.
Trump sued over a July 2025 story that said he’d sent a “bawdy” birthday note to the disgraced financier in 2003, typed within a sketched outline of a naked woman and signed with the president’s signature in the pubic area. The note ends with: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.” Trump has repeatedly claimed the note is fake.
“At the time of publication, defendants recklessly disregarded whether the defamatory statements were true and/or they purposefully avoided the discovery of the truth,” Trump’s lawyer Alejandro Brito wrote in the amended complaint.
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Shut up and drop it piggy.
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