BBC moves to dismiss Trump’s $5bn lawsuit
The BBC has announced it will seek to have Donald Trump’s lawsuit thrown out, challenging both the legal basis and the location of the case over how his January 6, 2021 speech was edited in a Panorama documentary. The US president filed a $5 billion lawsuit in Florida last month, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation and of breaching a trade practices law. He claims the programme wrongly suggested he directly called for violence ahead of the Capitol riot. In court documents submitted on Monday, the BBC said the Florida court does not have “personal jurisdiction” over the organisation and that the venue is not appropriate for the case. The broadcaster also argues that Trump has failed to present a legally valid claim. The BBC has already acknowledged that the way the speech was edited created a misleading impression. It […]