A Florida federal judge seemed skeptical of arguments from Donald Trump’s legal team over whether the court should allow a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal to move forward, reports Jeremy Barr of The Guardian.
Barr reports, “Lawyers representing Murdoch, the Journal and parent company News Corp argued that Trump’s team had made no headway in their attempts to prove that the president was defamed by the story, headlined ‘Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.’
“’The amended complaint is no better than the original complaint,’ said Andrew J Levander, an attorney representing the defendants. ‘It is time for this baseless lawsuit to come to an end. You gave the plaintiff a roadmap to fix this case and he couldn’t do it.’
“Lawyers for the defendants argued that Trump’s legal team mischaracterized the article and that the Journal could not be expected, as a matter of journalistic prerogative, to refrain from publishing an article simply because of the president’s denial.”
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