Saying the president was “grasping at straws,” a federal judge on Saturday threw out Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, reports Dave Collins of the Associated Press.
Collins 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. The ruling said the lawsuit had attempted to ‘manufacture’ flaws in the Journal’s investigative reporting.
“When a case is thrown out ‘with prejudice,’ it cannot be refiled again and the dismissal is permanent and incontrovertible.
“The dismissal is a blow to Trump and his administration, which have both pursued adversarial relationships with news organizations during his second term.”
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