US judge throws out Trump’s $3.8bn defamation lawsuit against Washington Post

According to The Guardian, a federal judge in Florida has thrown out Donald Trump's three point eight billion dollar defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post. The suit stemmed from a twenty twenty-three Post article reporting that a bank with ties to the pornography industry helped fund Trump's fledgling social media operation. In granting summary judgment to the newspaper, Tampa district judge Thomas Patrick Barber, himself a Trump appointee, wrote that the Trump Media and Technology Group had failed to present evidence that would let a jury find, by clear and convincing evidence, that the Post acted with actual malice — the demanding standard such a claim must meet to succeed.

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