Judge permanently dismisses Trump's $10bn lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal
A US judge has permanently dismissed Donald Trump's $10bn lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal. The ruling found that he failed to prove actual malice in the newspaper's reporting.
A US judge has permanently dropped a $10bn lawsuit brought by US President Donald Trump against the Wall Street Journal, the American business newspaper. The case concerned reporting by the paper linked to the Jeffrey Epstein affair.
The judge ruled that Trump did not prove "actual malice" in the newspaper's reporting. That is the US legal standard requiring public figures who sue a media outlet for defamation to show that it knowingly published false information or showed reckless disregard for the truth.
The ruling brings the case to a definitive end in this court. The source does not say whether Trump intends to appeal the decision.
