Trump launched the lawsuit after the newspaper published a letter it claimed Trump wrote to Epstein in 2003. Trump says the letter is fake
1-MIN READ1-MIN ListenAssociated PressPublished: 2:35am, 14 Apr 2026A federal judge dismissed US President Donald Trump’s US$10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch on Monday over a story on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
The letter was subsequently released publicly by Congress, which subpoenaed the records from Epstein’s estate. Trump denied writing it, calling the story “false, malicious and defamatory”.
However, the judge wrote that “whether President Trump was the author of the Letter or Epstein’s friend are questions of fact that cannot be determined at this stage of the litigation”.
