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A U.S. Choose has rejected the BBC’s software to remain discovery within the $10 billion lawsuit introduced by U.S. President Donald Trump over its enhancing of a speech that made it seem he directed supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol, court docket paperwork confirmed on Thursday (February 12, 2026).
Mr. Trump has accused Britain’s publicly owned broadcaster of defaming him by splicing collectively components of a January 6, 2021, speech, together with one part the place he informed supporters to march on the Capitol and one other the place he mentioned “battle like hell”.
It omitted a prolonged part through which he referred to as for peaceable protest.
Mr. Trump’s lawsuit alleges the BBC defamed him and violated a Florida regulation that bars misleading and unfair commerce practices. He’s looking for at the very least $5 billion in damages for every of the lawsuit’s two counts.
U.S. District Choose Roy Altman on Wednesday (February 11, 2026) denied the British broadcaster’s software to remain the merits-based discovery section, when each side can get hold of proof from different events in the lawsuit, the paperwork confirmed.
The Choose mentioned the BBC’s software was untimely nor had it proven that it might be prejudiced if the keep was not granted. In a separate order, the Choose set a two-week trial date for February 2027.
The BBC declined to remark.
The broadcaster has beforehand mentioned it might defend the case and would search to have the case dismissed, arguing that the court docket lacked jurisdiction as a result of it didn’t broadcast the programme in Florida, and that the president couldn’t show damages as a result of he was re-elected after it aired.
Revealed – February 12, 2026 08:02 pm IST