The defamation case is currently focused on the procedure known as discovery, where the two sides provide internal or other records that could form evidence. <\/p>\n
The BBC’s lawyers said the corporation had produced 87,000 pages of documents, whereas they said Trump’s side had released a “sham production” of only 735 pages, which they said were “news articles” and other material “pulled from the internet”. <\/p>\n
Counsel for the BBC, Charles Tobin, said this meant the discovery process had been “entirely one-sided”. <\/p>\n
Counsel for Trump, Alejandro Brito, described the BBC’s requests for documents as “oppressive” and “sweeping”.<\/p>\n
He also opposed the BBC’s requests for records about Trump’s conversations with aides relating to the Capitol riot, as well as subpoenas issued to federal agencies and former officials. <\/p>\n
Trump’s legal team accused the BBC of a “fishing expedition” with subpoenas to “harass” former officials. <\/p>\n
Much of the argument from Trump’s lawyers focused on a letter sent from BBC Chairman Samir Shah to the US president in November last year.<\/p>\n
In the letter, Shah apologised for the Panorama clip, which he said unintentionally gave the “mistaken impression that President Trump made a direct call for violent action”. <\/p>\n
Brito described the letter as a “concession” and “admission” by the BBC. <\/p>\n
The BBC has already sought to have the entire case dismissed, arguing the documentary was not broadcast in the US. The court has yet to rule on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defamation case is currently focused on the procedure known as discovery, where the two sides provide internal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-704781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}