Judge rules Trump must hand over financial records sought by BBC in defamation case
BBC • • nation
Key Points:
- A Florida judge ordered President Donald Trump to hand over financial records from the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust to the BBC, which is defending itself in Trump's $10bn defamation lawsuit over a Panorama episode.
- The lawsuit centers on the BBC's edited broadcast of Trump's speech during the US Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, which Trump claims caused financial loss.
- The judge partially granted the BBC's motion to obtain financial evidence but gave a split decision on requests for documents related to the Capitol riot itself.
- The BBC has produced 87,000 pages of documents, while Trump's legal team has provided only 735 pages, which the BBC described as inadequate and mostly publicly available material.
- Trump's lawyers opposed requests for records about his conversations with aides and subpoenas to federal agencies, citing a prior apology letter from BBC Chairman Samir Shah acknowledging the misleading nature of the Panorama clip.
