Trump BBC Defamation Lawsuit Backfires Big-Time—With Subpoenas Coming | Trump will also have to hand over all his financial information, a judge ruled.

[u/B-Z_B-S]

https://newrepublic.com/post/213372/trump-bbc-defamation-lawsuit-backfires-subpoenas-financial-info

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[u/Araminal]

But on Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett said the BBC can proceed with subpoenas for Trump’s closest advisers and confidants—including his family members, Stephen Miller, and Steve Bannon—to make the case on what Trump’s actual goals were on January 6.

Lett also ruled that Trump must hand over hundreds of financial records, as Trump argued in his lawsuit that the episode hurt his many businesses.

“All of President Trump’s brand, properties and businesses are impugned or said to have been impugned. Reputational, economic damages, all of that is now at issue in this case,” Lett said, allowing the BBC to investigate the more than 400 companies owned by Trump’s family trust.

Oops.

[u/kmm198700 → u/Araminal]

This is awesome

[u/A-town → u/kmm198700]

The British are doing what we should have been doing January 7th

[u/Korvanacor → u/A-town]

It’s never too late to hand things back over.

[u/Killboypowerhed → u/kmm198700]

We all know that BBCs are for fucking

[u/meryl_gear → u/Killboypowerhed]

He’s very jealous of the BBC

[u/AleWatcher → u/Araminal]

And get ready for Trump to drop the lawsuits

[u/jeo123 → u/AleWatcher]

TACO Tuesday was yesterday though. Got a few more days before the next one.

[u/specqq]

Threatening lawsuits is always the best part. Discovery is always the worst.

[u/hondactx16i]

Yea, this "massive" lawsuit will quietly disappear I think.

[u/eskimospy212]

Trump dropping the lawsuit in 3…2…1…

[u/moreJunkInMyHead → u/eskimospy212]

Trump in a week: We were winning so bigly, and we proved our case so strongly we don’t need to sue any more. I won big time, and no one can argue that. So I said let’s just drop the case. We won and everyone knows it!

[u/HumongousBelly → u/eskimospy212]

That fat orange fuck always tacos

[u/DarkCloudx64]

bro got outplayed

[u/nopointers → u/DarkCloudx64]

It happens when you go after another big company with lots of lawyers and willingness to fight.

[u/TragicallyDip → u/nopointers]

Or a company that doesn’t need anything from you. 2025 was the year of the bribe.

[u/Killboypowerhed → u/nopointers]

BBC has been around long enough to know how to deal with people like this

[u/ReedIcculus]

Same thing every time, sue until they fight back and then withdraw. Hope they countersue

[u/whhaaaaa]

It takes a foreign media company to do the real work

[u/hagenissen999 → u/whhaaaaa]

Foreign national media company, at that.

[u/TheFrostynaut]

"Settled out of court for an undisclosed amount"

It's too bad they'll find a way to make tax payers pay for it. 

[u/Araminal → u/TheFrostynaut]

This would work for him, in the eyes of his followers, even if that "undisclosed" amount was no more than a dollar. "Undisclosed amount" does a lot of carrying.

[u/TragicallyDip → u/Araminal]

They better not settle. All or nothing.

[u/peatoire]

I knew when it was the BBC that Trump was going to have a bad time.

[u/Jamizon1]

I hope this lawsuit runs its full course. Trump will try to run, hopefully, that path will be blocked. Maybe the BBC can take this assclown down.

[u/Made_Human_Music]

“Instead of doing that can I just do nothing and you say I won?”

The next line of Trump’s defense

[u/Tiny-Professional827]

Discovery is a bummer 

[u/galacticracedonkey]

Spoiler: he won’t

[u/tripledee138 → u/galacticracedonkey]

And then he will lose the lawsuit *he* filed

[u/genericusername11101]

He wont hand over shit and noone will do anything about it.

[u/tripledee138 → u/genericusername11101]

He filed this lawsuit, so if he doesn’t hand over the docs, he will lose.

[u/FinalEdit]

Yeah don't fuck with a seasoned institution like the BBC who have a mandate to protect the truth (even if they don't always get it right) and a public service mandate. They are not a private company in the UK, and their namesakes in the US are supported by them.

These people have been coming up against a lot more intelligent authoritarians over the years and know what they're doing. Trump and his team are a bunch of amateur bullies who have no idea how to game this.

[u/ElonMuskyOdor]

If he drops his suit, does this all go away?

[u/waaaatermelon → u/ElonMuskyOdor]

Great name btw. What I'm wondering is, when he dropa the suit, can the BBC say "no"? Or I guess they would/could countersue, and demand all this same info?

[u/ElonMuskyOdor → u/waaaatermelon]

Maybe..? Countersue on defamation grounds, I guess?

He's never really serious about these types of suits. He just does it to slow things down and muddy the waters. Once things get too hot for him, he drops it. The suit itself is the punishment, not the verdict. Once again, nothing substantial will come from this.

[u/theombudsmen]

No one could have possibly seen this coming. Trump will no doubt happily share all his financials now instead of walking back the lawsuit!

[u/AngelinaJean → u/theombudsmen]

Is crayon acceptable on financial documents?