Trump Ordered to Testify in His Own Lawsuit

So friends, after suing the BBC for some improper editing decision in a story about what Donald Trump said and did on January 6th, 2021, and after suing the BBC for $10 billion for damage to his reputation and his financial prospects, after doing all that, Donald Trump seems to be ducking and dodging, sitting for a deposition in the lawsuit he brought.

Ordinarily, when you sue somebody, you're the plaintiff in a lawsuit and you allege that they did $10 billion worth of damage to you, you can't wait to testify about how you've been wronged.

Not Donald.

Here is the new reporting.

This from the Associated Press.

Judge orders Trump to sit for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by December 11th.

And that story begins.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC by December 11th.

The order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Angelique Lett came as lawyers for the British broadcaster complained that Trump had delayed his appearance.

Charles Tobin, attorney for the BBC, said that with two months left in the discovery period, quote, we still haven't been able to depose the plaintiff, Donald Trump.

He, the lawyer for the BBC, noted there was an agreed upon date of October 16, but that Trump had canceled it for a matter of national importance.

Attorney Tobin said the Republican president was, in fact, campaigning in Georgia that day.

Quote, He was participating in party politics and prioritized that over sitting for the deposition.

Sitting for the deposition in the case he brought.

My editorial edition.

Judge Lett said Trump must sit for a deposition by December 11 or face sanctions up to dismissal of his lawsuit unless the discovery period was extended past December 18.

Trump, who has often avoided depositions, filed his lawsuit against the BBC last December.

He accused the publicly funded broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices related to a documentary, Trump, A Second Chance.

And friends, importantly, the BBC already took responsibility for an erroneous edit and they actually apologized, which does not mean they defamed him.

It is just what a responsible news organization does if they find that they broadcast something in error.

So listen to this.

The BBC acknowledged that filmmakers spliced together quotes from different sections of the speech Trump delivered to his supporters on January 6th, 2021, before the storming of the U.S. Capitol, to make it seem he was directly urging violence.

The broadcaster, the BBC, apologized over the editing and the head of the BBC and its top news executive both resigned.

But the BBC has denied Trump's claims that it defamed him.

That is that they maliciously and intentionally went about lying about Donald Trump.