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BBC Asks Judge to Toss Trump’s $10 Billion Defamation Case

Rolling Stone·@JonBlistein·2 months ago
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By Jon Blistein The BBC is asking a judge to toss the $10 billion defamation suit President Donald Trump filed against the U.K. broadcaster late last year. The original complaint, filed in December in the Southern District of Florida, centered around the way sections of a speech Trump gave on Jan. 6, 2021, the day of the Capitol riot, were edited together in an episode of the BBC’s long-running news show Panorama, which aired before the 2024 election. Trump accused the BBC of falsely and internally making it seem as if he’d “fomented violence” among his supporters with his speech. The episode spliced together sections of Trump’s speech taken from almost an hour apart.…

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