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Judge dismisses Trump’s Wall Street Journal defamation suit over Epstein story 

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Judge dismisses Trump’s Wall Street Journal defamation suit over Epstein story 

A federal judge tossed President Trump’s defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal on Monday over a story it published detailing a letter Trump allegedly sent to disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday.  Trump denies writing the letter and claims it was faked. But U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles ruled the president failed to allege “actual malice,” the high bar public figures must clear to…

Originally reported by The Hill