The BBC will seek dismissal of Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit in a Florida court

London – The BBC, the British public broadcaster, will introduce a proposal to abolish a A $10 billion lawsuit brought by President Trump for a 2024 film that splices parts of his January 6, 2021 speech together, according to a court filing Monday. The BBC says that the court does not have jurisdiction to hear the case, and the lawyers of Mr.

This case, which was filed last month by Mr. Trump in South Florida, including defamation and violation of Florida’s commercial law. The team of lawyers of Mr. Trump is seeking $5 billion per count, for a total of $10 billion, according to court filings reviewed by CBS News.

A 33-page complaint filed by Mr. Trump in December accused the BBC of publishing a “false, defamatory, deceptive, defamatory, incendiary and cruel portrayal” in the BBC’s “Panorama”, which was broadcast in the UK a week before the 2024 US election.

One part of the documentary focuses on the words and actions of Mr riots at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The lawsuit alleges that the BBC “willfully and deliberately sought to fully mislead its audience” by “splitting together” two clips of the same speech as Mr. Trump gave it to supporters in Washington before the riots began.

The team of lawyers of Mr. Trump says the two clips were 55 minutes apart, and the BBC’s editing left out his “statement calling for peace” from the same address. The president had ordered his supporters to go to Capitol Hill, where lawmakers would soon vote to confirm the election results in favor of former President Joe Biden.

In the latest court documents released on Monday, the BBC’s legal team said they will argue that the Florida court should dismiss the lawsuit because “the defamation claim comes from a book that Defendants British Broadcasting Corporation (“BBC”), BBC Studios Distribution Ltd., and BBC Studios Productions Ltd. did not create in Florida, produce in Florida, or broadcast in Florida.”

The BBC’s lawyers will also say that this case did not cause damage or tarnish Mr.

The BBC’s legal team also said that the claim made in the case of Mr. Trump, the allegations that the documentary was made available in the US through the streaming service, are not accurate.

“The Plaintiff alleges that the Documentary was available in the US on the BritBox streaming service. But a simple click on the link the Plaintiff cites at this point shows that it is not on BritBox. And it has never been on BritBox,” according to a filing filed by law firm Ballard Spahr, which represents the BBC.

The team of lawyers of Mr. Trump did not provide evidence that the documentary was created with “real malice,” Ballard Spahr said Monday.

“As we have made clear before, we will defend this case. We will not comment on ongoing legal actions,” a BBC spokesperson told CBS News on Tuesday when asked about the organization’s move to dismiss the case.

The spokesperson of Mr. Trump said in a statement: “The BBC is responsible to President Trump for deliberately and shamelessly defaming him by distorting and amplifying his speech. No amount of legal effort can change that fact. President Trump will continue to hold the BBC and all those who peddle fake news to account.”

I The BBC officially apologized to Mr in November, in a statement that an edited soundbite in the Panorama documentary gave, “the false impression that President Trump made a direct call for violent action.”

“While the BBC sincerely regrets the editing of the video clip, we strongly disagree with the basis of the defamation claim,” the BBC’s legal team said at the time, adding that it “had no plans to rebroadcast the documentary ‘Trump: A Second Chance?’ on any of the BBC’s platforms.”

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