{"id":816134,"date":"2026-08-17T03:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/816134\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T03:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:02:13","slug":"bbc-seeks-trump-family-testimony-in-his-defamation-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/816134\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC seeks Trump family testimony in his defamation lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 The BBC<\/a> asked a U.S. court for help in getting documents and testimony from members of U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> \u2018s family in connection with his $10 billion defamation lawsuit<\/a> against the British broadcaster, a court document showed.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the BBC argued that Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump, Jr. have \u201cpersonal knowledge\u201d and likely have records relevant to elements of Trump\u2019s claims against the broadcaster, according to a filing Friday in federal court in Florida. <\/p>\n

The broadcaster has been unable to serve subpoenas because the three have Secret Service protection and other security personnel around them, the filing says.<\/p>\n

Trump filed the lawsuit in December seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing it of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices.<\/p>\n

The allegations center on the way a 2024 documentary edited a speech Trump gave on Jan. 6, 2021, before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington. The lawsuit accuses the BBC of \u201csplicing together two entirely separate parts of President Trump\u2019s speech\u201d to \u201cintentionally misrepresent the meaning of what President Trump said.\u201d<\/p>\n

It added that the editing was \u201ca brazen attempt to interfere in and influence\u201d the 2024 U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n

The BBC has apologized to Trump<\/a> for the misleading edit, but said it had not defamed him. <\/p>\n

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The latest court filing said that Trump\u2019s family members had knowledge of issues that were relevant to Trump\u2019s argument \u201cthat it would be materially false to imply that he incited violence\u201d on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n

It cited that Donald Trump, Jr. and Ivanka Trump were both present in the Oval Office when Trump was still revising his speech, adding that Donald Trump, Jr. spoke directly with his father after violence had broken out at the Capitol.<\/p>\n

The filing says the BBC asked Trump to accept the subpoenas on his daughter and son-in-law\u2019s behalf or to direct the Secret Service to allow the subpoenas to be served, but he refused. The broadcaster asked the court to allow the subpoenas to be served by email and certified mail.<\/p>\n

The judge has given Trump\u2019s legal team until Friday to respond to the BBC\u2019s request.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s legal team said that \u201cthe BBC is simply trying to distract away from their own obvious liability.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe BBC intentionally defamed President Donald J. Trump, and now the BBC is seeking to harass him, his family, and supporters by abusing the deposition process,\u201d according to the team.<\/p>\n

A trial has been provisionally set for February in the case.<\/p>\n

Last week, a federal judge in Florida granted Trump a temporary reprieve<\/a> from an order that he provide details of his business empire\u2019s financial performance as part of the lawsuit. <\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Roy Altman agreed to put that order on hold while he considers an amended complaint from Trump that would narrow his claim that he suffered damage to both business and reputation.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press journalists Kate Brumback in Atlanta and Alanna Durkin Richer in Washington contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 The BBC asked a U.S. court for help in getting documents and testimony from members…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,8827,28,2302,1072,12,2808,793,47321,48658,565,3130,2221,3,8828,346316,2226,21,19,22,20,25,24,800,965],"class_list":["post-816134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-bbc","tag-business","tag-courts","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-florida","tag-general-news","tag-ivanka-trump","tag-jared-kushner","tag-jr","tag-lawsuits","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-news","tag-public-media","tag-roy-altman","tag-trials","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}