{"id":435152,"date":"2026-10-22T19:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/435152\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:32:12","slug":"judge-orders-trump-to-sit-for-deposition-in-miami-defamation-case-newsradio-wiod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/435152\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Orders Trump to Sit for Deposition in Miami Defamation Case | NewsRadio WIOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has been ordered to sit for a deposition in Miami as part of his ongoing $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>A federal magistrate judge set a December 11 deadline for Trump to answer questions under oath, warning that failure to comply could result in sanctions, including the possible dismissal of the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The case centers on a BBC documentary that Trump alleges misrepresented comments he made in connection with the events of January 6, 2021. Trump claims the broadcast harmed his reputation and caused significant damages.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had previously been scheduled to give a deposition earlier this month, but his attorneys sought to postpone the questioning until next year. Attorneys for the BBC asked the court to require Trump to participate in the discovery process and commit to a deposition date.<\/p>\n<p>During a hearing in Miami, the judge ordered Trump to be deposed by the December deadline and emphasized the importance of complying with ongoing discovery requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit remains in the pretrial stage as both sides continue gathering evidence ahead of future court proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump has been ordered to sit for a deposition in Miami as part of his ongoing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[85000,23311,23307,84998,225,227,226,84996,115,84997,807,84999,729,221],"class_list":["post-435152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-clear-channel-miami","tag-coast-to-coast","tag-glenn-beck","tag-hannity","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-jimmy-cefalo","tag-news","tag-schnitt","tag-south-florida","tag-the-weather-channel-wall-street-journal","tag-traffic","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435152","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=435152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}