A federal judge has permanently dismissed United States President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against media mogul Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal. On Saturday, US District Judge Darrin Gayles concluded that the president had failed to establish the standard of “actual malice” required for defamation suits. Under US law, a successful complaint must show that the defendant released a defamatory statement knowing it was false or with “reckless disregard” for its accuracy. Gayles, however, said that Trump was “grasping at straws” with his $10bn case against The Wall Street Journal. “The Amended Complaint falls short of pleading actual malice,” Gayles wrote.
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