The Wall Street Journal asked a judge on Monday to dismiss U.S. President Donald Trump's lawsuit alleging the paper defamed him in an article asserting Trump's name was on a 2003 birthday greeting for the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump filed the lawsuit in July as his administration faced criticism from its conservative base and congressional Democrats over its handling of the Epstein case. The Justice Department in early July said it would not make public files from its sex trafficking investigation into Epstein, reneging on earlier promises from Trump and his allies to do so.

The lawsuit is one of several Trump, a Republican, has filed in recent months against major media outlets over reporting he has characterized as unfair or false. That has led to concern amo

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