Someone just made another killing on Wall Street by distracting everyone from the Epstein files

A federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has dismissed Trump v. Murdoch, tRump’s defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal.

In a 17-page order, Judge Darrin Gayles found that, even assuming everything in Trump’s complaint is true, Trump’s lawsuit “comes nowhere close” to meeting the standard for defamation. Gayles does not weigh in on whether the 2003 Trump letter was genuine, but notes that the lawsuit fails to establish that the reporters acted with “actual malice.”

Specifically, Gayles notes that the reporters reached out to Trump and others for comment, and printed Trump’s denial that he authored the letter in the piece. This showed that the reporters both investigated the letter’s authenticity and allowed readers to draw their own conclusions.

Yet another reminder that the outlets that help him, whether it’s through putting a thumb on the outlet’s editorial scales or handing over huge settlements plausibly deniable cash gifts without a murmur do it because they want to help him and think they’ve found a way to cover their bias.

There’s a link to the order up top. Most available documents are available here, for free.

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