Trump legal team claims the BBC is ‘abusing the deposition process’ as broadcaster fights a $10 billion lawsuit
Donald Trump has accused the BBC of trying to harass his family after the broadcaster sought to subpoena members of his family to challenge his $10 billion defamation lawsuit.
The president is suing the BBC for defamation over a Panorama episode that spliced together two parts of a speech he gave ahead of the Capitol riots in 2021.
Lawyers have requested a U.S. court order Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr, his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner to give documents and testimony in relation to the case.
53 Comments
dan1101@lemmy.world · 156 pts · 7d
Subpoenas in response to litigation YOU started aren't harassment.
jumperalex@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 7d
Also, even if you ignore this is Trump and just focus on him being a political figure, here's my response https://youtu.be/S0Vyr1TylTE
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 7d
"Only I get to punch, if you hit back you're a bully!" said a sniffling Trump.
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 68 pts · 7d
Trump employed those children as high government officials.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 7d
And he wants to keep it in the family.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 7d
May they never know peace again
djdarren@piefed.social · 50 pts · 7d
I am enjoying that he's gone up against one of the oldest, biggest news outlets, an organisation that has some exceptionally good lawyers, and knows EXACTLY what the boundaries are. And he's only now apparently beginning to realise that they won't just fold in fear like everyone else.
The BBC has been sued on far more solid ground by far worse cunts than that sack of shit.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 6d
And since he isn't President of their country, they don't have to pay up immediately just to appease him.
Slashme@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d
I think you mean "far less solid ground" - i.e. they're on very solid ground here.
djdarren@piefed.social · 6 pts · 7d
No, I meant solid ground. As in, Trump's ground is currently made entirely from loose gravel.
Slashme@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6d
Aah, I thought you meant the BBC's solid ground, not the plaintiff. Got it.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 41 pts · 7d
The fucking whining never stops with this guy.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 6d
It was a part of his campaign promises
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 7d
Trump: Kicks the BBC
BBC: Fights Back
Trump: STOP STOP ITS NOT FAIR YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO FIGHT BACK.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 7d
Pretty much the MO of any rapist or bully. Or both.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 6d
Oh I know, I grew up with this exact personality.
Allow the abuse, defending yourself means your the monster.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6d
As in you were the victim, or the perpetrator? Sorry if the former.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5d
as in I was on the receiving end.
nshibj@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 6d
The sad things is that has worked for it* in the past, so of course it* will keep on using that strategy.
* I use the pronoun it because I believe in using the correct pronouns for everyone and refuse to address that piece of shit as a human being
echodot@feddit.uk · 19 pts · 7d
I don't think it's possible to harass via subpoena, "judge they are harassing me via your order" isn't exactly the best thing you want to be saying to a judge.
ol_capt_joe@piefed.social · 18 pts · 7d
Trump's always thinking of the children
argarath@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 7d
How young are trump's "children" again? Just thinking that it's kinda suspicious that they call them children when talking about trump's full grown adult sons and daughter while when talking about the genocide in Gaza they never refer to literal babies or pre-teens and other obvious children as children
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 7 pts · 6d
It’s just like how the media were calling the victims of Epstein “young women”. No, the victims were children.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 7d
ima stop ya right there
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 7d
Lies! All lies!
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 6d
You mean the same way you and your lackies harassed Hunter Biden all these years?
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 7d
So sue them. I'm sure that discovery process will be fun too.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 7d
The bully-victim whines again.
Paddy_NI@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 7d
What a fucking nonce.
Insekticus@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 7d
Even if the BBC was harassing them by throwing large rocks at their large, malformed heads, I STILL wouldn't give a singular fuck for any of the rotten pieces of shit.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 7d
Fuck him.
lizzzy@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 7d
Has anyone got a record of all of trumps court cases . Along with the status
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d
The list is so long that I don't think you'd be able to read them all, especially considering that he's being sued daily.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 6d
Lmao. They should play something to annoy that dickhead, similar to how they obliged a Tory who demanded that they play God Save the Queen at the end of broadcast day... but instead with Sex Pistols.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwsQ_5Wm4oo
nshibj@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6d
Brilliant! It's just a pity the credits ended before getting to the "No future" part, given that this was meant to celebrate the UK's departure from the EU.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 6 pts · 7d
always trying to blame it all on the black man!
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
Big ones, especially
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 7d
Motherfucker I wish someone would harass your family. Ya'll deserve it more than anyone.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 7d
Who cares what happens to a family of traitors and inbreds?
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 6d
I am ok with that, even if it was true. I grant billionaire kinda no rights or legal recourse. They can go wah wah wah am they want, but you could say anything that follows "I was wronged by the following ______" and I would laugh and cheer for everything in the blank. Including getting fucking merc"d. I actively cheer for tyrant death and suffering. Every problem you have is a victory for real people. There is no "low" we can sink to that will ever make me feel like you are getting any problem you don't deserve more of. You could be forced to watch your kids penetrated by flaming devil dicks while you bleed out while the world watches your diaper fill and you try to hold your intestines in and I will just watch and laugh.
I can never have any favorable feeling to you, and literally no situation is bad enough for what you deserve. You deserve torture, agony, anguish, and for all of that to happen forever. You actually deserve a literal biblical hell. Not infinitely, maybe. We can pull you out every few millennia and see if you've changed your tune maybe. But you definitely deserve more than a lifetime amount of it.
"You" being trump in particular, but really any billionaire capitalist.
Slashme@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 7d
How hard does someone need to try to serve you with a subpoena before they can say "I tried, but I can't make it work"? In Germany, you send the document by registered mail to the official address of the person and it's done, or if it's a court document, the court sends it by official registered mail.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 7d
dont you mean trying to expose your involvement of epstein, which your children are part of too.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6d
That is some classic DARVO shit right there.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 5d
BBC gonna kick some trumps ass big time. Wait and see...
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 5d
I've been saying this all along: Don't settle the lawsuits, refuse to settle, and demand a FEROCIOUS discovery. These people commit crimes with every breath, and they can't afford to have legal entities rooting through their personal and business records, that will surely lead to future criminal indictments.
Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 7d
Worst that will happen is a fine that never gets paid. I'm willing to bet that the BBC will PAY Trump money at the end of this because there isn't anyone in the world, with power, that can say no to an elderly, mentally deficienct, traitorous, make-up wearing, pedophile
echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 7d
Pick one.
Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 6d
Don't really need to.
More than likely, he will get fined and never pay/ keep appealing.
But I'd be willing to bet that the BBC will pay Trump money at the end of this.
Does that make it more clear with what I meant?
echodot@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 6d
The BBC are not going to capitulate because if they were going to do that they'd have done so already, they've got old trumpelskin on the ropes, why would they give in now? They're making him look like the brainless idiot that of course he is.
LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 7d
I’ll take your bet. What do you want to wager?
Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d
I will give you my finest upvote if you are correct
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 1 pts · 7d
A BBC.