Trump legal team claims the BBC is ‘abusing the deposition process’ as broadcaster fights a $10 billion lawsuit

Donald Trump has accused the BBC of trying to harass his family after the broadcaster sought to subpoena members of his family to challenge his $10 billion defamation lawsuit.

The president is suing the BBC for defamation over a Panorama episode that spliced together two parts of a speech he gave ahead of the Capitol riots in 2021.

Lawyers have requested a U.S. court order Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr, his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner to give documents and testimony in relation to the case.

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    How young are trump’s “children” again? Just thinking that it’s kinda suspicious that they call them children when talking about trump’s full grown adult sons and daughter while when talking about the genocide in Gaza they never refer to literal babies or pre-teens and other obvious children as children

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    I’ve been saying this all along: Don’t settle the lawsuits, refuse to settle, and demand a FEROCIOUS discovery. These people commit crimes with every breath, and they can’t afford to have legal entities rooting through their personal and business records, that will surely lead to future criminal indictments.

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    I don’t think it’s possible to harass via subpoena, “judge they are harassing me via your order” isn’t exactly the best thing you want to be saying to a judge.

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    I am enjoying that he’s gone up against one of the oldest, biggest news outlets, an organisation that has some exceptionally good lawyers, and knows EXACTLY what the boundaries are. And he’s only now apparently beginning to realise that they won’t just fold in fear like everyone else.

    The BBC has been sued on far more solid ground by far worse cunts than that sack of shit.

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      The sad things is that has worked for it* in the past, so of course it* will keep on using that strategy.

      * I use the pronoun it because I believe in using the correct pronouns for everyone and refuse to address that piece of shit as a human being

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    How hard does someone need to try to serve you with a subpoena before they can say “I tried, but I can’t make it work”? In Germany, you send the document by registered mail to the official address of the person and it’s done, or if it’s a court document, the court sends it by official registered mail.