President Donald Trump has refiled his lawsuit in opposition to the Wall Street Journal’s writer and two of its reporters over a July 2025 report on a lewd birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein bearing Trump’s identify.
Tuesday’s defamation lawsuit seeks $10 billion for damages and claims that the story had “glaring failures in journalistic ethics and standards of accurate reporting.”
“President Trump has refiled his powerhouse lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and all of the other Defendants. The President will continue to hold those who mislead the American People with Fake News and smears accountable for their actions,” a spokesperson for Trump’s authorized workforce informed NCS.
NCS has reached out to the Wall Street Journal for remark.
The president’s earlier lawsuit was dismissed final month, with a federal choose ruling that Trump didn’t plausibly allege the newspaper acted with “actual malice” when it reported the story.
Since returning to workplace, Trump has gone after media corporations by means of authorized strain and public threats. When the president first filed the lawsuit final summer time, authorized consultants consulted by NCS stated they might not recall any previous situations of a sitting president suing a information outlet over a narrative.
He has since filed lawsuits in opposition to different retailers together with a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times in September, that accuses the outlet of being a “virtual mouthpiece” for the Democratic Party.
In December, Trump sued the BBC for $10 billion, alleging that it defamed him by splicing collectively two completely different elements of his January 6, 2021, speech.
The Wall Street Journal story printed in July 2025 was a couple of assortment of letters gifted to Epstein for his fiftieth birthday in 2003. One of the letters, the Wall Street Journal reported, bore Trump’s identify and a top level view of a unadorned girl.
Trump has denied writing the letter. In Tuesday’s submitting, his authorized workforce stated the reporters “falsely pass off as fact that President Trump, in 2003, wrote, drew, and signed this letter” however “failed to show proof.”
A spokesperson for Dow Jones, the Journal’s mother or father firm stated in a press release when the primary lawsuit was filed, “We have full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reporting, and will vigorously defend against any lawsuit.”
Trump has beforehand been underneath scrutiny for his ties to Epstein, with the administration going through continued backlash for the way it dealt with the discharge of the Justice Department’s recordsdata associated to the late intercourse offender.