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Trump Jr. tweets

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal judge in West Virginia granted summary judgment to Donald Trump Jr. on a former coal executive’s lawsuit claiming the younger Trump’s tweets, made prior to the 2018 West Virginia Republican primary, caused him to lose his election and harmed his business reputation. He could not demonstrate that Don Jr. acted with malice in his tweets, which were not “materially false.”

Read the ruling here.

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