{"id":11833,"date":"2026-01-13T06:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=11833"},"modified":"2026-01-13T06:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:02:11","slug":"bbc-seeks-dismissal-of-10bn-trump-lawsuit-over-panorama-fight-like-hell-clip-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=11833","title":{"rendered":"BBC seeks dismissal of $10bn Trump lawsuit over Panorama \u2018fight like hell\u2019 clip | BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The BBC will take legal steps to have Donald Trump\u2019s $10bn defamation lawsuit over a Panorama programme edit dismissed, court documents have shown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Panorama faced criticism in 2025, over an episode broadcast in 2024, for giving the impression the US president had encouraged his supporters to storm the Capitol building in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/nov\/03\/bbc-accused-selectively-editing-trump-clip-capitol-attack\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">The spliced clips in the edition of Panorama<\/a> suggested that Trump told the crowd: \u201cWe\u2019re going to walk down to the Capitol and I\u2019ll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The words were taken from sections of his speech almost an hour apart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/bbc\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">BBC<\/a> will file a motion to dismiss, claiming the Florida court lacks \u201cpersonal jurisdiction\u201d over them, the court venue is \u201cimproper\u201d and that Trump has \u201cfailed to state a claim\u201d, documents filed on Monday evening revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The corporation will argue that it did not create, produce or broadcast the documentary in Florida and that Trump\u2019s claim that the documentary was available in the US on streaming service BritBox is not true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cSimply clicking on the link that plaintiff cites for this point shows it is not on BritBox,\u201d the broadcaster\u2019s lawyers said in court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It will also claim the president has failed to \u201cplausibly allege\u201d the BBC published the documentary with \u201cactual malice\u201d, which public officials are required to show when filing suit for defamation in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The broadcaster has asked the court \u201cto stay all other discovery\u201d \u2013 the pre-trial process in which parties gather information \u2013 pending the decision on the motion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In asking for discovery to be delayed, lawyers for the BBC said: \u201cThe plaintiff will seek broad, objectionable discovery on the merits, implicating the BBC\u2019s entire scope of coverage of Donald J Trump over the past decade or more and claiming injury to his entire business and political profiles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A 2027 trial date has been proposed should the case continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The BBC was approached for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Trump is seeking up to $10bn (\u00a37.5bn) in damages in response to the editing of the speech, with his lawyers claiming it was \u201cfalse and defamatory\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#BBC #seeks #dismissal #10bn #Trump #lawsuit #Panorama #fight #hell #clip #BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC will take legal steps &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}