The Daily Beast
Patrick McMullan / Patrick McMullan via Getty Image President Donald Trump is turning to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell as he resurrects his lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over an article about a lewd birthday letter bearing his signature sent to Jeffrey Epstein. The president refiled his $10 billion lawsuit on Wednesday after a federal judge threw out his first lawsuit in April, finding he had not sufficiently alleged “actual malice,” the legal threshold required in defamation suits involving public officials. In the revised lawsuit , Trump’s lawyers argue that the Journal showed actual malice by omitting from the article Maxwell’s claim that she had no recollection of Trump sending the letter, citing testimony from her controversial sit-down last July with then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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