Judge dismisses Trump suit against Wall Street Journal over Epstein birthday letter
Topics: Epstein Files
4 outlets (PBS NewsHour, CBS News, NBC News and Axios) are covering this story.
How outlets are covering this: 4 outlets ran their own headlines on this story. Words most headlines share: “Judge”, “dismisses”, “Epstein”, “birthday”. Distinct wording: PBS NewsHour uses “letter”; CBS News uses “prejudice”; NBC News uses “defamation” and “billion”; Axios uses “Murdoch” and “tosses”. (Computed from the headlines below.)
- PBS NewsHour reports: “U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami dismissed the suit with prejudice, ruling that the president did not prove the defendants made defamatory statements with actual malice as required by law.”
- CBS News reports: “In a 20-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami dismissed the suit with prejudice, ruling that President Trump did not prove the defendants made defamatory statements with actual ma…”
- NBC News reports: “A federal judge in Florida has tossed a revised version of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal over a story about a birthday card he allegedly sent …”
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- PBS NewsHour: Judge dismisses Trump suit against Wall Street Journal over Epstein birthday letter
- CBS News: Judge dismisses with prejudice Trump lawsuit against Wall Street Journal
- NBC News: Judge dismisses Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit over Epstein birthday card story
- Axios: Judge tosses Trump lawsuit against WSJ, Murdoch over Epstein story
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