President Donald Trump renewed his legal fight against The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, filing a revised defamation lawsuit accusing the newspaper and its parent companies of knowingly publishing false claims tying him to a birthday letter sent to Jeffrey Epstein.
The updated complaint was filed in federal court in Miami after U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles threw out Trump's earlier lawsuit, ruling that it failed to adequately establish "actual malice," the legal threshold public figures must meet in defamation cases, the publication reported Thursday.
Gayles had given Trump until May 27 to submit a revised filing.
At the center of the dispute is a July Wall Street Journal report describing a letter allegedly included in a book compiled for Epstein's 50th birthday in 2003.
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