{"id":193779,"date":"2026-03-16T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193779\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:58:11","slug":"bbc-asks-florida-court-to-dismiss-trumps-us10-billion-lawsuit-over-january-6-speech-edit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193779\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC asks Florida court to dismiss Trump\u2019s US$10 billion lawsuit over January 6 speech edit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The BBC said on Monday it had asked a US federal court in Florida to dismiss a US$10 billion lawsuit brought by US President Donald Trump against the British broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The documentary was \u201cnever aired in Florida \u2013 or the US\u201d or available to stream there on any platform, a representative for the British Broadcasting Corporation said in a comment sent to Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It also argued that Trump could not show that it intended to misrepresent him.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe have therefore challenged jurisdiction of the Florida court and filed a motion to dismiss the president\u2019s claim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/bbc?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC<\/a> had \u201csaid throughout we will robustly defend the case against us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a 34-page document, the BBC also argued that Trump failed to \u201cplausibly allege facts showing that defendants knowingly intended to create a false impression\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC said on Monday it had asked a US federal court in Florida to dismiss a US$10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[90090,2205,58727,409,28,30,29,14633,123,217,628,90089,6413],"class_list":["post-193779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-associated-press","tag-bbc","tag-donald-trump","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-january","tag-miami","tag-monday","tag-us","tag-us-capitol","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}