President Donald Trump has refiled his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal’s publisher and two of its reporters over a July 2025 report on a lewd birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein bearing Trump’s name, according to CNN.
The suit, filed Tuesday, claims the story had “glaring failures in journalistic ethics and standards of accurate reporting.” It comes roughly a month after a federal judge dismissed the original lawsuit, ruling Trump failed to plausibly allege the newspaper acted with “actual malice.”
“President Trump has refiled his powerhouse lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and all of the other Defendants,” a spokesperson for Trump’s legal team told CNN. “The President will continue to hold those who mislead the American People with Fake News and smears accountable for their actions.”
The July 2025 Wall Street Journal story centered on a collection of letters gifted to Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003. One letter bore Trump’s name and an outline of a naked woman. Trump has denied writing it, and his legal team said Tuesday the reporters “falsely pass off as fact” that Trump wrote, drew, and signed the letter but “failed to show proof.”
A spokesperson for Dow Jones, the Journal’s parent company, said when the first lawsuit was filed that it has “full confidence in the rigor and accuracy” of its reporting and would “vigorously defend against any lawsuit.” CNN said it reached out to the Wall Street Journal for comment on the refile.
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