President Trump refiled a revised defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal's publisher on May 28, 2026, seeking at least $10 billion in damages over its 2025 reporting on an alleged lewd birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein. A federal judge in Miami had dismissed the original July 2025 complaint without prejudice on April 13, 2026, ruling it failed to adequately plead actual malice under First Amendment standards, while granting leave to amend by May 27. The amended filing addresses those deficiencies and renews claims that the article contained knowing falsehoods damaging the president's reputation. This development follows the paper's account of a 2003 greeting bearing Trump's name in Epstein's birthday book, with the litigation now proceeding through the federal courts in Florida.