Trump ordered to sit for deposition in BBC lawsuit

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA federal judge has ordered President Trump to sit for questioning from a BBC lawyer by December eleventh, or face possible dismissal of his lawsuit against the broadcaster.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe suit seeks ten billion dollars: five billion for defamation and five billion for unfair trade practices, according to the AP.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd this was already on the calendar once. He agreed to a deposition on October sixteenth, then cancelled, citing a matter of national importance.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBBC lawyers say he was campaigning in Georgia that day. His own lawyers had asked for a window between January eleventh and January twenty-second.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe background is that the BBC admitted filmmakers spliced together quotes from his January sixth, twenty twenty-one speech.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt apologized, and its head and top news executive resigned.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA spokesman for Trump's legal team did not address the deposition, but called the suit a way of holding the BBC accountable for defamation and reckless election interference.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA provisional two-week trial is set for February fifteenth, twenty twenty-seven.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBBC attorney Charles Tobin put it this way: "We still haven't been able to depose the plaintiff."

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOuch.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTen billion dollars, and the one appointment nobody could get him to was the one he asked for. The judge just booked it for him.