{"id":616771,"date":"2026-06-11T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=616771"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:51:51","slug":"wsj-delivers-blistering-attack-on-trump-claims-in-court-bombshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=616771","title":{"rendered":"WSJ delivers blistering attack on Trump claims in court bombshell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Wall Street Journal filed a motion on Wednesday asking a federal judge to once more dismiss a $10 billion defamation suit from President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2025, the Journal published a report containing a lewd sketch of a woman that the paper alleged was drawn by President Trump and included in a decades-old birthday gift for now-deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s 50th birthday, and Ghislaine Maxwell was preparing a special gift to mark the occasion,\u201d the Journal reported<\/a> at the time. \u201cShe turned to Epstein\u2019s family and friends. One of them was Donald Trump. Maxwell collected letters from Trump and dozens of Epstein\u2019s other associates for a 2003 birthday album.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inside Trump\u2019s letter was the lewd drawing.<\/p>\n

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A copy of a commemorative book given to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003 has been handed over to the US Congress.<\/p>\n

Among the greetings is a typewritten note allegedly from Donald Trump, framed by a drawing of a naked woman, The Wall Street Journal reports.<\/p>\n

The\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/THyW1cE5sm<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NEXTA (@nexta_tv) September 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A day after the report\u2019s publication, Trump sued.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lawsuit filed in Miami federal court names Murdoch, Dow Jones, News Corp, and its Chief Executive Robert Thomson, and two Wall Street Journal reporters as defendants, saying they defamed Trump and caused him to suffer \u2018overwhelming\u2019 financial and reputational harm,\u201d Reuters<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

The president referenced the suit in a Truth Social post.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have just filed a POWERHOUSE Lawsuit against everyone involved in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory, FAKE NEWS \u2018article\u2019 in the useless \u2018rag\u2019 that is, The Wall Street Journal,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

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BREAKING NEWS: We have just filed a POWERHOUSE Lawsuit against everyone involved in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory, FAKE NEWS \u201carticle\u201d in the useless \u201crag\u201d that is, The Wall Street Journal. This historic legal action is being brought against the so-called authors of\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Commentary Donald J. Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) July 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Months later, in April of 2026, Judge Darrin P. Gayles, an Obama appointee, dismissed the complaint on the grounds that Trump had \u201cnot plausibly\u201d proven that the Journal had published the summer 2025 article with malice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe complaint comes nowhere close to this standard,\u201d Gayles wrote, according to Courthouse News<\/a>. \u201cQuite the opposite. The article explains that, before running the story, defendants contacted President Trump, Justice Department officials, and the FBI for comment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump responded with his denial, the Justice Department did not respond at all, and the FBI declined to comment. In short, the complaint and article confirm that defendants attempted to investigate,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Then, in May, the president filed an amended complaint.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump has refiled his powerhouse lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and all of the other Defendants,\u201d a spokesperson told CNN<\/a>. \u201cThe President will continue to hold those who mislead the American People with Fake News and smears accountable for their actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the amendment complaint, Trump\u2019s legal team targeted the two authors of the Journal\u2019s July 2025 report, Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefendants Safdar and Palazzolo had access to two individuals who could provide information about the (lack of) veracity and authenticity of the card, President Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell, and either intentionally ignored the information received from them which disproved the statements made in the article, or defendants Safdar and Palazzolo deliberately avoided engaging in the investigation necessary to try and substantiate the statements in the article, which would have failed,\u201d the complaint reads.<\/p>\n

This Wednesday, the Journal filed its response to the amended complaint. The response consisted of a 22-page filing<\/a> in which the Journal fiercely defended its reporters\u2019 work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn his latest attempt to plead actual malice, President Trump recycles allegations already rejected by this court, makes claims contradicted by the article itself, and again lumps the various defendants together rather than pleading actual malice as to each,\u201d the response reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the first amended complaint falls woefully short of the President\u2019s burden, his case should be dismissed again \u2014 this time with prejudice,\u201d it continues.<\/p>\n

The filing also demands that the plaintiff be forced to pay for the Journal\u2019s attorney fees and costs as per Florida\u2019s anti-SLAPP law, which punishes people or groups that file meritless lawsuits.<\/p>\n

And the filing makes the case that \u201cthere is nothing defamatory about\u201d the Journal reporting about \u201ca person sending a bawdy note to a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

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