2026-04-13 13:24:50 UTC / 路透社
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2026年4月13日 13:24 UTC，更新于29分钟前
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- 特朗普起诉该报关于爱泼斯坦生日贺卡的报道
- 国会民主党议员随后公布了该贺卡的副本
- 发言人表示，美国总统计划重新提起诉讼
（路透社4月13日电）——联邦法官周一驳回了唐纳德·特朗普对《华尔街日报》的诽谤诉讼，这是这位美国总统在指控媒体不公平对待自己、针对媒体发起的法律攻势中遭遇的一次挫折。
这起诉讼是这位共和党总统在任期内针对主流媒体提起的多起诉讼之一，他称这些媒体的报道不公平或失实。这一行为引发了民主党和新闻自由倡导者的担忧，他们认为特朗普试图利用诽谤诉讼压制批判性报道。
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特朗普的诉讼称，由鲁珀特·默多克旗下的《华尔街日报》刊发的一篇文章损害了他的声誉，该文章称特朗普曾在一张写给已故性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的生日贺卡上签名。特朗普及其律师称这张贺卡是伪造的，即便国会调查爱泼斯坦案件的议员们已经公布了该贺卡的副本。
特朗普于2025年7月提起诉讼，当时他的政府正因其对爱泼斯坦案件的处理方式，遭到保守派基础阵营和国会民主党人的批评。爱泼斯坦是一名金融家，2019年在曼哈顿监狱牢房内死亡，此前他因儿童性交易指控被捕。
位于迈阿密的美国联邦地区法院法官达林·P·盖尔斯——前总统巴拉克·奥巴马的任命官员——在驳回这起诉讼时表示，特朗普远未达到公众人物在诽谤诉讼中必须满足的“实际恶意”标准。
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这意味着公众人物不仅必须证明针对他们的公开陈述是虚假的，还必须证明媒体或发布该陈述的人明知或理应知道陈述是虚假的。
“这起诉讼远未达到这一标准，”盖尔斯写道，“事实恰恰相反。”
盖尔斯表示，特朗普可在4月27日前提交修正后的诉讼。
特朗普法律团队的一名发言人表示，他们将重新提起诉讼。
新闻集团和道琼斯均未回应置评请求。
民主党公布贺卡副本
盖尔斯写道，《华尔街日报》的记者此前曾联系特朗普征求置评，并刊登了他的否认声明。法官表示，这让读者可以自行得出结论，反驳了特朗普关于该报存在实际恶意的主张。
该裁决未涉及这篇报道是否属实。
爱泼斯坦案件催生了诸多阴谋论，称政府掩盖了这名金融大亨与富人和权贵的联系，并掩盖了他死亡的细节，官方裁定其为自杀。
特朗普在2024年总统竞选期间大肆宣扬这些有关爱泼斯坦的阴谋论，并誓言如果胜选就公开政府的调查档案。他后来并未兑现这一承诺，但仍将随后引发的丑闻称为民主党人的骗局。
特朗普和爱泼斯坦曾是朋友，但特朗普称在爱泼斯坦2008年因卖淫指控认罪前，他就已断绝了联系。特朗普一直否认知晓爱泼斯坦的罪行。
特朗普对《华尔街日报》的诉讼，源于该报一篇报道称特朗普曾在2003年写给爱泼斯坦的生日贺卡上签名，贺卡上有一幅裸女画像，以及一段特朗普与爱泼斯坦的虚构对话，其中提及共同的秘密。
特朗普的诉讼反复声称这张贺卡是伪造的，并指责《华尔街日报》未将其作为证据刊登，但后来国会民主党议员从爱泼斯坦的遗产中获得了该贺卡的副本并予以公布。
《华尔街日报》警告言论 chilling 效应
在请求驳回此案时，《华尔街日报》称该诉讼毫无依据，并威胁会对那些敢于发表总统不喜欢的内容的人产生寒蝉效应。
特朗普还起诉了英国广播公司，称其对一段演讲的剪辑具有误导性；起诉了《纽约时报》，因其刊发的有关他的文章和书籍；还起诉了艾奥瓦州的一家报纸，因其发布的民调显示他在2024年总统竞选落后副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯。
这三家媒体均否认存在不当行为。
美国广播公司在特朗普起诉其主播就一起指控他性虐待的民事案件发表不准确言论后，与特朗普达成了和解。哥伦比亚广播公司也在特朗普起诉其编辑对采访哈里斯的片段进行剪辑后，达成了类似和解协议。
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US judge throws out Trump’s defamation case against Wall Street Journal
2026-04-13 13:24:50 UTC / Reuters
By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen
April 13, 2026 1:24 PM UTC Updated 29 mins ago
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- Trump sued newspaper over article about Epstein birthday letter
- Democrats in Congress later released copy of greeting
- U.S. President plans to re-file lawsuit, spokesman says
April 13 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday dismissed Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, a setback for the U.S. president in his legal campaign against media companies he accuses of treating him unfairly.
The case was one of several that Trump, a Republican, has filed during his presidency against major media outlets over reporting he has characterized as unfair or false. That has led to concern among Democrats and press freedom advocates that he is seeking to use defamation cases to quell critical coverage.
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Trump’s lawsuit said the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper tarnished his reputation with an article describing a birthday card to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein bearing Trump’s signature. Trump and his lawyers said the card is fake, even after it was released by lawmakers investigating Epstein’s case.
Trump filed the lawsuit in July 2025 as his administration faced criticism from its conservative base and congressional Democrats over its handling of the case against Epstein, a financier who died in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 after being arrested on child sex trafficking charges.
Miami-based U.S. District Court Judge Darrin P. Gayles, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said in tossing the case that Trump had not come close to meeting the “actual malice” standard that public figures must clear in defamation.
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That means they must prove not only that a public statement about them was false but also that the media outlet or person who made the statement knew or should have known that it was false.
“This complaint comes nowhere close to this standard,” Gayles wrote. “Quite the opposite.”
Gayles said Trump could file an amended version of the lawsuit by April 27.
A spokesman for Trump’s legal team said he would refile the lawsuit.
Neither News Corp nor Dow Jones responded to requests for comment.
DEMOCRATS RELEASED COPY OF LETTER
Gayles wrote that the Journal’s reporters reached out to Trump for comment beforehand, and printed his denial. That allowed readers to decide for themselves what to conclude, cutting against Trump’s assertion that the newspaper acted with actual malice, the judge said.
The ruling did not address whether the article was true.
The Epstein case generated conspiracy theories that the government covered up the financier’s ties to the rich and powerful and obscured details about his death, which was ruled a suicide.
Trump amplified such conspiracy theories about Epstein during the 2024 presidential campaign and vowed to open the government’s investigative files if he won. He reneged on that promise but has called the ensuing scandal a Democratic hoax.
Trump and Epstein were once friends, but Trump says he severed ties before Epstein pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in 2008. Trump has consistently denied knowing about Epstein’s crimes.
His lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal came in response to an article asserting that Trump’s signature was on a 2003 birthday card for Epstein that included a drawing of a naked woman and a reference to shared secrets in an imaginary dialogue between Trump and Epstein.
Trump’s lawsuit repeatedly asserts the card is fake and takes the Journal to task for not publishing it as proof, but a copy was later released by Democrats in Congress who obtained it from Epstein’s estate.
WSJ WARNS OF CHILLING EFFECT ON SPEECH
In seeking to dismiss the case, the Wall Street Journal said the lawsuit was meritless and threatened to chill the speech of those who would dare to publish content the president does not like.
Trump has also sued the BBC, citing misleading editing of a speech, the New York Times over articles and a book about him, and a newspaper in Iowa over a poll that showed him trailing Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential campaign.
All three outlets have denied wrongdoing.
ABC settled with Trump after he sued over an anchor’s inaccurate comments about a civil case accusing him of sexual abuse. CBS struck a similar deal after Trump sued over its edits to an interview with Harris.
Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Daniel Wallis
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