{"id":87980,"date":"2026-11-01T06:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87980"},"modified":"2026-11-01T06:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:12:06","slug":"judge-throws-out-epstein-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/judge-throws-out-epstein-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Throws Out Epstein Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Saying the president was \u201cgrasping at straws,\u201d a federal judge on Saturday threw out Donald Trump\u2019s $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a story reporting on his ties to<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jeffrey-epstein-jail-suicide-prison-death-8d194a756f2b429067f009a0c70f96c0\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami dismissed the suit with prejudice, ruling that the president did not prove the defendants made defamatory statements with actual malice as required by law. The ruling said the lawsuit had attempted to \u201cmanufacture\u201d flaws in the Journal\u2019s investigative reporting.\u00a0When a case is thrown out \u201cwith prejudice,\u201d it cannot be refiled again and the dismissal is permanent and incontrovertible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Saying the president was \u201cgrasping at straws,\u201d a federal judge on Saturday threw out Donald Trump\u2019s $10 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87981,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87980\/revisions\/87981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}