President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal for its reporting on a lewd birthday card the president allegedly sent Jeffrey Epstein was tossed out by a judge on Monday, who in their ruling, made a telling citation that one ex-prosecutor and legal expert said “speaks volumes.”
Last year, the Journal got its hands on a lewd birthday card that Trump had allegedly sent to Epstein in 2003 for the disgraced financier’s 50th birthday, and its subsequent report on the letter drew outrage from the president, who denied having written the letter. Trump would later sue the Journal over its report, which he called “defamatory” and “false.”
That lawsuit was dismissed Monday by Florida-based U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles, who in his decision, made a telling citation.
“When you’re reading through the 17-page ruling by the judge, he cites things like the Wall Street Journal [being] careful to ask not only Donald Trump and the White House for comment,” said Glenn Kirschner, a former U.S. Army prosecutor and assistant U.S. attorney, appearing on an episode of podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen’s show “Legal Breakdown” that was published on Monday.
“[The Journal] asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) – [and] let’s face it, it is Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, heck, he put his picture right up on the building so there was no confusing that this is not an independent law enforcement agency – [and] the judge put in his ruling that the Department of Justice wouldn’t even comment.”
The Journal had, in fact, reached out to the DOJ for comment in its reporting, as well as the FBI, both of which declined to provide evidence to support Trump’s claim that he hadn’t written the lewd birthday card.
“They declined to say anything in support of Donald Trump’s claim that this was a fake letter! They noted that they sought comment from the FBI director and radio silence!” Kirschner said. “Boy, that speaks volumes if he can’t even get his own attorney general and his own FBI director to weigh in and say ‘we have evidence that that was a fraudulent letter.’ But nothing by way of supporting Donald Trump’s summary claim.”
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