President Donald Trump has refiled a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over a dismissed case involving a 2025 report about a lewd birthday letter allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein.
US President Donald Trump has refiled his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal’s publisher and two reporters over a July 2025 article detailing a lewd 2003 birthday letter sent to Jeffrey Epstein bearing Trump’s name. The President’s initial lawsuit was dismissed last month after a federal judge ruled he failed to plausibly allege the newspaper acted with actual malice.
The refiled suit claims the story suffered from “glaring failures in journalistic ethics and standards of accurate reporting.” Trump’s legal team stated, “The President will continue to hold those who mislead the American People with Fake News and smears accountable for their actions,” asserting that the reporters “falsely pass off as fact that President Trump, in 2003, wrote, drew, and signed this letter” without providing definitive proof.
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