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Article snippet: A federal judge on Monday dismissed Stormy Daniels’s defamation lawsuit against MORE. U.S. District Judge S. James Otero in September suggested he would dismiss the case, saying that a tweet by President Trump at the center of the defamation lawsuit was "rhetorical hyperbole" rather than defamation. Daniels, who filed the defamation lawsuit in April, centered that case on a tweet that Trump sent that month regarding a sketch of a man who allegedly threatened her. Daniels claimed in a “60 Minutes” interview that month that in 2011 a man approached her and her infant daughter in a parking lot and threatened her not to speak about the alleged affair. “He leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, 'That’s a beautiful little girl,' " Daniels said. " 'It'd be a shame if something happened to her mom.' And then he was gone.” She later released a composite sketch of the man she said threatened her. Trump took to Twitter and called the sketch a “total con job,” sharing a photo of Daniels’s ex-husband side-by-side with the sketch that suggested the two were the same person. Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, argued in the suit that the president defamed her by accusing her of fabricating the alleged crime, which would be illegal. Otero, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush in 2003, wrote in his decision that Trump posted the tweet “as a rejoinder against an individual challenging him in the public arena.” “This is the definition of pro... Link to the full article to read more