A federal judge in Florida just delivered some bad news to the liberal media corporation that President Donald Trump has characterized as “a terrible abuser of the truth.”
On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Kuntz, a Trump nominee, denied the British Broadcasting Corporation’s motion to dismiss the president’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit, clearing the case to proceed.
‘It had edited a video to make it appear as though President Trump made a statement he never made.’
Trump will, accordingly, have his opportunity in summary judgment or at trial to hold the company accountable for a documentary he calls “fake news.”
Background
One week ahead of the 2024 presidential election, the BBC aired a “Panorama” documentary that presented a heavily edited version of Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, speech at the
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