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    BBC vows to defend itself in $10bn Donald Trump lawsuit

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    1. Marcuse0 on

      Wow this lawsuit doubles in size every day? By the time anyone hears it it’ll be worth more than the income of the whole world!

    2. Tartan_Samurai on

      The Big D giving off heavy Dr. Evil energy with this demand. I hope the bbc rinses him and then counter sues

    3. Trundlenator on

      Remember UK and US defamation cases have different standards of burden(Johnny Depp Amber heard case came to different results in UK and US).

    4. Certain_Abies6451 on

      The orange prick can shove it up his arse, even if he wins the case from dodgy political judges they (we) should point blank refuse to pay.

    5. tiny-robot on

      I doubt Trump will stop at this. He will probably try and get the BBC banned and journalists kicked out of America if the BBC don’t give him cash.

    6. QuailTechnical5143 on

      Seems like a pointless effort TBF. If you want to claim reputational damage, you need a reputation to defend.

    7. Agreeable_Falcon1044 on

      Get him to prove where he’s lost that much money through them editing down words he actually said.

      I suspect though he will start punishing uk and sticking tariffs on us, then Starmer will cave like a weakling to appease the cry baby

    8. elliott2106 on

      It’d be nice for someone to tell the orange nonce ‘no’ for the first time in his pathetic little life.

    9. Emotional-Ebb8321 on

      Wasn’t the Epstein files due to be released later this week? I can’t help but feel this announcement is aimed at burying that news.

    11. Puzzleheaded-Car3562 on

      Does a lawsuit lodged in a court in Florida have any standing at all in a foreign country? Say, the UK? Or Timbuktu? Or anywhere else? Answer: of course not. It’s a big publicity stunt with zero chance of being heard, let alone won. Look up international law in regard to *jurisdictions*.

    12. Street_Grab4236 on

      Honestly just fight it until that fucker rolls over and dies. Probably cheaper than any settlement offer cause he ain’t got much more time.

    13. CellsReinvent on

      Pretty sure there’ll be British lawyers willing to work pro bono to defend the BBC against that tyrant.

    14. painteroftheword on

      Disclosure will be fun.

      BBC should request that Trump provides all related information.

      That’s usually when he chickens out.

    15. CrossHeather on

      Just crown him ‘Sports Personality of the Year’, and we can all move on from this debacle.

    16. Niadh74 on

      Lets face it. He is brining this case in Florida where he hopes his pet judge Eileen Cannon will be handed control. She will quite obviously do everyrhing she can to please her master in hopes of getting onto the Supreme Court when the next member croaks.

    18. DesignerElectrical23 on

      The idiot couldn’t even say what the accusations were. He went off on one of his rambling nonsense speeches.

    19. therealhairykrishna on

      I think Trump’s normal tactic will fail here. There was a US lawyer on the radio earlier explaining that the BBC should just make a settlement offer of something like 10m, which will make it go away, because it will cost 100m to fight it.

      Ultimately the BBC is not at the mercy of normal commercial pressures and the British public hate Trump. I’d rather they burnt the sum total of the licence fee in a big pile rather than give a penny to Trump and I think most people think the same way.

    20. unknowntoff on

      Just remember everyone, this is an attack on British taxpayers, nothing else. Trump and America are your enemy, just like Russia.

      I think it’s also high time that people in the UK start boycotting American goods and services like Canada did when Trump blatantly attacked their sovereignty.

    21. Gentle_Snail on

      To quote the Financial Times analysis: 

      >How strong is the case?
      >
      >Several lawyers are sceptical about the prospects of a courtroom victory for Trump.
      >
      >Jeffrey Smele, head of media and communications disputes at Simons Muirhead Burton, said the claim was “extravagant” and that the BBC had “some good grounds on which to fight”.
      >
      >The president “is going to face a challenge establishing real damage”, Smele said, adding that Trump “wasn’t even aware of the edited clip at the time” and it “clearly didn’t interfere too much with the [2024] election because he won”.
      >
      >.. Dominic Crossley, head of dispute resolution at Payne Hicks Beach, said that “to a UK lawyer’s eye”, the claim seemed “ludicrously overstated and unlikely to withstand serious legal scrutiny”.

    22. drewbles82 on

      BBC could literally hit back with 100s of lies Trump and his government has said, show the lie, then show the facts, use your footage to show how stupid the man really is.

    24. im_just_called_lucy on

      The case will be thrown out very quickly I reckon.

      In order for Trump to win the defamation lawsuit, he has to prove that the BBC programme- that only aired in the U.K.- damaged his reputation in the United States. As he is suing in the US (specifically in the state of Florida), he cannot sue for damages to his reputation in the UK among the British public. Remember when Johnny Depp sued The Sun over that article suggesting that he abused Amber Heard? Both Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had to *physically* go to the UK High Court to either argue against or in favour of The Sun’s right to publish the “wife beater” headline based on evidence they had and whether The Sun had committed libel against Depp. The episode of Panorama about Trump and January 6th 2021 aired before the 2024 Presidential Election and he was able to win the election. If you can be reelected- winning both the Electoral College and popular vote- after this television episode aired in a different country, IT DID NOT DAMAGE YOUR REPUTATION.

      Maybe the BBC will have certain privileges revoked when reporting on the US White House whilst Trump is in office but they will not have to pay Trump $5 billion for defamation. The BBC have removed the episode from its iPlayer and social media, they will never rebroadcast it, executives have resigned and apologies have been made.

    25. Foodwraith on

      No one can defame Trump like Trump can. His daily verbal diarrhea reached a new low yesterday when he blamed Rob Reiner for being murdered.

      On his best day, his reputation is worth peanuts.

    26. carrie-ser on

      Why don’t they use him? He told the world today that BBC put words into his mouth that he didn’t say. That he thought were created by AI.

      I’m sure they didn’t use AI to create words for him – he spews so much rubbish that we don’t need to make it up.

      So he has made statements about the BBC today that are untrue and do damage to their brand. 10 billion worth of reputational damage.