Attorneys for the BBC want to subpoena Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought an election conspiracy indictment against Donald Trump, as the network defends itself against the president’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit.
In a filing in federal court on Monday, the BBC legal team noted that Smith is not objecting to the subpoena.
They wrote, “The conclusions of Mr. Smith’s report are public—but the evidence that informed those conclusions is not, including the ‘strong evidence that the violence that occurred on January 6 was foreseeable to Mr. Trump, that he caused it, and that he and his
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