The rejection of Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal in the Epstein case The court rejected Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal. The case goes back to an article about a letter attributed to Trump to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein; A letter that Trump called fake and denied its existence. At the same time, the aforementioned complaint attracted a lot of attention due to the fact that the media company that owned the Wall Street Journal belonged to Trump's allies.