Megyn Kelly

Jeffrey Epstein's friends sent him bawdy letters for a 50th birthday album.

One was from Donald Trump.

According to the report, in 2003, Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell compiling letters from dozens of Epstein's friends and associates years before investigations into the disgraced financier that would ultimately lead to his conviction on two state charges, solicitation of prostitution and solicitation of prostitution with a minor.

The journal describing the letter, which it says it reviewed, as containing several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman with Mr. Trump's signature appearing below the waist and concluding, quote, Happy birthday and may every day be another wonderful secret.

President Trump denying that he authored the letter, telling the journal, quote, Shortly after the article's publication, Mr. Trump's legal team filing a defamation lawsuit in the U.S.

District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

naming the journal's parent company, News Corp., founder Rupert Murdoch, CEO Robert Thompson, publisher Dow Jones, and two reporters.

Mr. Trump's lawyers arguing the report caused significant financial and reputational harm, damages they said would only grow as the story spread.

The journal's legal team urging the court to dismiss the case, arguing the reporting was accurate and that Mr. Trump could not show the journal acted with actual malice in its reporting, the standard required for public figures suing for defamation.

Yesterday, Obama appointed U.S.

District Judge Darren Gales siding with the journal, dismissing the complaint without prejudice, meaning the president is able to refile at a later date.

Judge Gales finding Mr. Trump had not alleged facts that could establish the journal acted with actual malice, a notoriously high legal standard for defamation cases brought by public figures.

which requires proof that a publisher knew a claim was false or acted with reckless disregard for the truth.

Judge Gales writing, quote,

The complaint comes nowhere close to this standard, quite the opposite.

Dow Jones responding in a statement, quote, we are pleased with the judge's decision to dismiss this complaint.

We stand behind the reliability, rigor, and accuracy of the Wall Street Journal's reporting.

President Trump posting on Truth Social that his team intends to refile the case before April 27th.

Bahamian authorities releasing the husband of missing American woman, 55-year-old Lynette Hooker, from custody last night.

A magistrate previously approving an extension to keep 58-year-old Brian Hooker in lockup through the weekend as investigators continued examining the case.