Federal judge blocks Trump lawsuit against Wall Street Journal

Newsweek - A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and its publisher, Rupert Murdoch, over an article examining Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, while allowing the president an opportunity to amend his complaint...

U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles, nominated to his post by former Democratic President Barack Obama, writing in an order issued in Florida, said Trump had failed to plausibly argue that the newspaper published the article with actual malice, a required standard for defamation claims brought by public figures. Gayles said Trump may file an amended complaint addressing the deficiencies.