Trump Files Motion to Block BBC Subpoenaing Family Members in Defamation Lawsuit
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President Donald Trump filed a motion on Friday to bar the BBC from subpoenaing his family members as part of the U.K. media company’s legal defense against Trump’s defamation lawsuit.
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The HillTrump fights BBC’s push to subpoena family members amid legal battle President Trump is attempting to block the BBC’s efforts to subpoena his family members for the channel’s defense in his ongoing $10 million defamation lawsuit. In Saturday court filings, Trump’s lawyers wrote that the British broadcaster’s attempts to subpoena the president’s children — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner — were “cynical” and a…
ABC NewsWASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has urged a federal judge to reject the BBC's request for the court's help in securing testimony and documents from three family members in response to his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster.
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In their Friday filing, Trump’s lawyers argue BBC’s “politically-charged discovery campaign … has already been rejected by this Court.”
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ABC News“The relief that the BBC’s Motion seeks cannot be segregated from the politically charged discovery campaign that it is based on, and which has already been ruled as improperly overbroad by this Court,” Trump's lawyers wrote.
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Trump's lawsuit, filed in December, accuses the BBC of deceptively editing portions of the speech that he delivered near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of his supporters attacked the Capitol to stop Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden's victory over Trump. The suit claims the BBC spliced together separate parts of Trump’s speech to intentionally misrepresent what he said.
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Washington ExaminerTrump initially filed the lawsuit against the BBC in December 2025, alleging the media company edited the Jan. 6, 2021 speech at the Ellipse in a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious” way as part of a documentary that aired a week before the 2024 presidential election. Trump claimed $10 billion in damages from the edits in the case.
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01 PBS NewsHour Trump threatens lawsuit against nonprofit that questioned whether National Guard plan lessened crime The letter gave the Washington, D.C.-based Center for American Progress until the end of business Friday to issue the retraction or face a $5 billion lawsuit. The center declined.
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02 Washington Examiner “The BBC has endeavored to resolve this issue without seeking the Court’s assistance,” BBC’s lawyers wrote in the August court filing, saying they also attempted, without success, to ask the Secret Service agents to accept the subpoenas on behalf of the family members.
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03 HuffPost The Center for American Progress said it will not retract a report that found President Donald Trump’s National Guard deployments in cities across the country have had no measurable impact on violent crime.
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04 ABC News Kuntz, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, inherited the president's lawsuit from another judge less than a week ago. Court filings did not immediately specify a reason for the case's reassignment. The previous judge has set a February trial date.
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05 The Daily Wire Torrey Pines High School is facing a lawsuit alleging that teachers and administrators retaliated against two students who expressed pro-Trump views during a February protest — landing one of them in a psychiatric hospital on a mandatory hold.
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