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Donald Trump BBC defamation lawsuit
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FIRST ENTRY AUG 22
AUG 22 · Day 1
Donald Trump Moves to Block BBC Subpoenas of Family Members in Defamation Lawsuit
Donald Trump asked a federal court to deny a BBC motion seeking to subpoena Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner as part of a $10 billion defamation lawsuit.
Secret Service agents at the residence of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner turned away a process server attempting to deliver subpoenas in May, stating they lacked authorization to accept them.
Trump's lawsuit accuses the BBC of defamation for splicing together two separate passages of his January 6, 2021 speech in a Panorama documentary episode.
“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,”
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