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President Trump\u2019s multibillion dollar lawsuit against the BBC<\/a> over the editing of one of his speeches has been set for a year\u2019s time.<\/p>\n In a blow to the corporation, the Florida judge has also rejected the BBC\u2019s attempt to put off disclosing internal documents relating to the episode of Panorama that contained the spliced version of Trump\u2019s<\/a> 2021 address.<\/p>\n Trump made the speech in Washington before supporters stormed the US Capitol. The BBC has apologised for cutting together two parts of the speech without making the edit clear to viewers. However, it denies it defamed the president.<\/p>\n BBC lawyers in the US had argued that the process of disclosing documents relating to the legal action should wait until the judge decided whether the court even had any jurisdiction to rule in the case.<\/p>\n The lawyers said the programme, Trump: A Second Chance?, was never broadcast in Florida and would attempt to have the case dismissed at an early stage.<\/p>\n They said the process of revealing documents, known as discovery<\/a>, would be an \u201cunusual step\u201d given the questions over whether or not the episode was actually broadcast in the state. It was rejected by the judge.<\/p>\n Court documents from the US district court southern district of Florida confirmed that judge Roy K Altman had set a trial date of 15 February 2027.<\/p>\n The BBC is in the process of trying to find a replacement for its outgoing director general, Tim Davie, whose resignation formed part of the fallout from the row.<\/p>\n The Panorama edit, taken from two sections of Trump\u2019s speech almost an hour apart, suggested he 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 The BBC is due to file a motion to have the case dismissed next month. A BBC spokesperson said: \u201cAs we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case. We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n The 33-page complaint filed by Trump in December accused the BBC of a \u201cstaggering breach of journalistic ethics\u201d.<\/p>\n It states: \u201cThis instance of doctoring \u2013 in the form of distortion of meaning and splicing of entirely unrelated word sequences \u2013 is part of the BBC\u2019s longstanding pattern of manipulating President Trump\u2019s speeches and presenting content in a misleading manner in order to defame him, including fabricating calls for violence that he never made.\u201d<\/p>\n It claimed the documentary was available to viewers in Florida via the BritBox broadcast service, which lawyers for the BBC dispute.<\/p>\n The lawsuit continues a pattern of the president pursuing media outlets in the courts.<\/p>\n Since his re-election last November, Trump has scored several high-profile legal wins against big media firms in the US. ABC, owned by Disney, agreed to pay $15m<\/a> (\u00a311m) as part of a settlement over a defamation lawsuit he brought following comments made by the anchor George Stephanopoulos.<\/p>\n In July last year, Trump also reached a $16m settlement<\/a> with Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, over what the US president claimed was false editing of a pre-election interview with the Democratic candidate for president, Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n While many legal experts viewed the case as easily winnable for Paramount, company leadership viewed it as a distraction \u2013 particularly as it sought federal government approval for a merger with Skydance Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #Trumps #multibillion #lawsuit #BBC #Panorama #edit #set #Florida #trial #BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Trump\u2019s multibillion… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21207,"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\/21206"}],"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=21206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}