President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein posing for a photo together at Mar-a-Lago in 1997Image source, Getty Images
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President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein posing for a photo together at Mar-a-Lago in 1997

ByGrace Eliza Goodwin
  • Published31 minutes ago

A US judge has thrown out President Donald Trump's $10bn dollar lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, ruling the suit was "grasping at straws".

Trump had sued the media outlet's parent company Dow Jones and its leader Rupert Murdoch last year after it reported on a letter allegedly written by Trump to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as part of a birthday book in 2003, before Epstein was charged with sex crimes.