Trump refiled $10 billion defamation suit against WSJ

President Donald Trump has refiled a defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, seeking at least $10 billion in damages over a report concerning his alleged ties to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. The amended complaint was filed in federal court in Miami on Wednesday, following the dismissal of an earlier version of the lawsuit in April.

The legal action centers on a Wall Street Journal article that described a birthday card to Epstein as bearing Trump's signature. Trump and his lawyers assert the card is fabricated, a claim they maintain despite the document's subsequent release by lawmakers investigating the Epstein case. The lawsuit alleges the newspaper published false statements that caused overwhelming financial and reputational harm.

Defendants named in the suit include media executive Rupert Murdoch, Dow Jones & Company, News Corp, its CEO Robert Thomson, and Wall Street Journal reporters Khadeeja Safdar and Joseph Palazzolo. In the amended filing, Trump's legal team argues the defendants acted with reckless disregard for the truth or purposefully avoided discovering it at the time of publication.

Dow Jones, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, has...