2026年4月13日 / 美国东部时间上午10:42 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：斯特凡·贝克特、雅各布·罗森
华盛顿——迈阿密一名联邦法官驳回了唐纳德·特朗普总统针对《华尔街日报》的诽谤诉讼，该案源于该报一篇关于杰弗里·爱泼斯坦生日纪念册的报道。法官表示，特朗普的法律团队未能达到确立其诉讼主张所需的法律门槛。
在一份长达17页的判决书中，美国佛罗里达州南区联邦地区法院法官达林·盖尔斯裁定，特朗普总统“远远未能”证明该报对他怀有“实际恶意”——而这是公众人物提起诽谤诉讼的法定标准。
实际恶意要求原告证明，针对公众人物的言论在发布时明知其为虚假，或罔顾其真伪。
“由于特朗普总统未能合理主张被告方在发布该报道时存在实际恶意，两项指控均应驳回，”盖尔斯写道。
不过，法官表示，特朗普可以在4月27日前重新提起诉讼，修改起诉状，主张该报存在实际恶意。
盖尔斯补充说，特朗普在起诉状中提出的“结论性主张”——即《华尔街日报》“持有矛盾证据且未进行调查”——“被该报道反驳，不足以证明存在实际恶意”。
特朗普法律团队的一名发言人表示，总统“将遵循盖尔斯法官的裁决和指引，重新提起这起针对《华尔街日报》及所有其他被告的有力诉讼”。
“总统将继续追究那些传播假新闻、误导美国民众的人的责任，”该发言人说。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系白宫征求对该裁决的置评。
《华尔街日报》在2025年7月报道称，一本为纪念爱泼斯坦2003年50岁生日而制作的、收录其友人信件的纪念册，在一个裸体女性轮廓内包含一条“低俗”留言，下方带有特朗普的签名。特朗普称该报道为“假新闻”，并对该报、其母公司新闻集团、该公司首席执行官、撰写该报道的记者以及新闻集团名誉主席鲁珀特·默多克提起了200亿美元的诉讼。
众议院议员随后传唤并获取了爱泼斯坦遗产中经过编辑的纪念册版本，其中包含特朗普诉讼核心的那封信。白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特当时表示，“很明显，特朗普总统没有画这幅画，也没有签名。”
在周一的裁决中，法官拒绝“在此时就爱泼斯坦遗产提交的文件与报道中提及的文件是否为同一文件作出事实认定”。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/lawmakers-have-split-response-to-alleged-trump-letter-to-epstein/
Judge dismisses Trump suit against Wall Street Journal over Epstein birthday letter for now
April 13, 2026 / 10:42 AM EDT / CBS News
By Stefan Becket, Jacob Rosen
Washington — A federal judge in Miami handed President Trump a setback in his defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over a story about a birthday book for Jeffrey Epstein, saying the president’s legal team failed to clear the legal bar needed to establish their claim.
In a 17-page ruling, Judge Darrin Gayles of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Florida ruled that the president came “nowhere close” to showing the paper acted with “actual malice” towards him, the standard for bringing a defamation suit as a public figure.
Actual malice requires that plaintiffs prove that statements made about a public figure were published with the knowledge that they were false, or with disregard for whether they are true or not.
“Because President Trump has not plausibly alleged that Defendants published the Article with actual malice, both Counts must be dismissed,” Gayles wrote.
However, the judge said Mr. Trump can refile the case by April 27 to amend the complaint and allege the paper acted with actual malice.
Gayles added that Mr. Trump’s “conclusory allegation” in the complaint — that the Journal “had contradictory evidence and failed to investigate” — is “rebutted by the Article and is insufficient to establish actual malice.”
A spokesman for Mr. Trump’s legal team said the president “will follow Judge Gayles’s ruling and guidance to refile this powerhouse lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and all of the other Defendants.”
“The President will continue to hold accountable those who traffic in Fake News to mislead the American People,” the spokesman said.
CBS News has reached out to the White House for comment on the ruling.
The Journal reported in July 2025 that a book with letters from Epstein’s friends prepared for his 50th birthday in 2003 included a “bawdy” message inside the outline of a nude woman with Mr. Trump’s signature underneath. The president dismissed the story as “FAKE” and filed a $20 billion lawsuit against the paper, its parent company News Corp, the company’s CEO, the reporters who wrote the story and Rupert Murdoch, News Corp’s chairman emeritus.
House lawmakers later subpoenaed and obtained a redacted version of the birthday book from Epstein’s estate, which included the letter at the center of Mr. Trump’s lawsuit. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at the time that “it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it.”
In his ruling on Monday, the judge declined to “make a factual finding, at this time, that the documents produced by the Epstein Estate are the same documents referenced in the Article.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/lawmakers-have-split-response-to-alleged-trump-letter-to-epstein/
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