BBC asks US federal judge to compel Trump’s lawyers to schedule deposition after his team canceled initial session
The BBC is asking a federal judge in Florida to force Donald Trump to sit for a deposition as part of the president’s $10bn defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster.
According to a Tuesday filing, the BBC and Trump’s legal team had agreed for him to be deposed on Friday. The BBC’s lawyers wrote to the judge that they have spent months trying to secure a location for the deposition from Trump’s team.
On 28 September, Trump’s lawyers told the BBC’s counsel that the president “is no longer available for his deposition on October 16 due to other matters of national importance”.
It’s a US court, and since the BBC is the defendant, them winning just means they won’t have to pay anything. Unless they’re counter-suing I guess, I haven’t looked into it that far. IANAL if that’s not obvious lol
Pretty sure the US court was just to force deposition, the main event is in a UK court. But I confess I don’t actually care enough to search up the details
No. Trump sued the BBC in a Florida Court. All this is happening in US courts.