Donald Trump did this all to himself. Trump got angry when the BBC used footage of his 1/6 speech in a documentary and accused the British broadcaster of defaming him and harming his business.
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In what has become a predictable pattern that Trump has used to shakedown other media companies, the president sued for $10 billion and claimed that his reputation and business had been damaged.
The president even got the lawsuit heard in Florida, but almost immediately the wheels began to come off. The BBC did something that CBS and ABC did not do.
The BBC refused to pay.
The BBC also fought back.
The British broadcaster tried to subpoena Trump’s adult kids who were with him on 1/6. They were also granted access to Trump’s business records by the judge, only for the president to amend his lawsuit to remove the claim that his business had been harmed; thus, he did not have to turn over his business records.
The BBC has also tried to get the phone records for every phone that Trump used on 1/6 beyond the White House switchboard. The 1/6 Committee was limited to only White House phone records, which were incomplete.
What Trump expected to be another step in his media-bullying cash grab turned into a legal rock fight, and now a judge has ordered Trump to sit for a deposition by December 11.
Trump has been trying to get out of testifying for months, which is odd behavior for someone who brought the lawsuit and claimed that he was defamed.
