A U.S. federal judge denied a motion on Tuesday to dismiss President Trump’s defamation case against the BBC, allowing the case to proceed.
In December 2025, Mr. Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation, the U.K.’s public broadcaster, over a documentary that featured edited parts of the speech he delivered on Jan. 6, 2021, as his supporters massed around the U.S. Capitol in what would become an assault on the heart of the government.
In the lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of Florida, attorneys for Mr. Trump accuse the BBC of publishing a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging,
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