The Wall Street Journal asked a judge to toss out Donald Trump‘s revised defamation lawsuit, contending that the president’s new litigation is merely a “re-package” of claims already dismissed by the court, reports Ted Johnson of Deadline.
Johnson reports, “The Journal’s legal team also argued that the article ‘does not have a defamatory meaning.’
“‘Even if the Article had reported that Plaintiff personally crafted the letter to Epstein—and it does not—there is nothing defamatory about a person sending a bawdy note to a friend,’ the Journal’s filing stated.
“The Journal also challenged the claim that the article did not include any denial from Trump that he signed the letter. The Journal’s legal team noted that the article ‘dedicated three paragraphs to Plaintiff’s denial, including his insistence that the letter was a ‘fake thing’ and his categorical disavowal of involvement, stating: ‘[t]his is not me.”
“In addition to the dismissal, the Journal is seeking attorneys fees and costs under the anti-SLAPP statute.”
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