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U.S. President Donald Trump has dropped part of his $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC, new court documents reveal.
Last year, Trump sued the British broadcaster over claims that a BBC Panorama documentary was doctored to make it appear as though Trump, during his Jan. 6, 2021 speech outside the White House, had urged his followers to attack the Capitol. The 33-page document, brought in the U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida in December, alleges that the BBC made “a false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump.”
New details have now emerged that the BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Studios, has been dropped from the suit. In the document, released by the British press on Friday, it reads: “All claims in this action asserted against the Studios Defendants are hereby dismissed with prejudice, with each party to bear its own costs and attorney’s fees… President Trump shall continue prosecuting his causes of action against Defendant British Broadcasting Corporation.”
Reports have also stated that the U.S. government is considering joining the litigation. According to The Telegraph, it means that documents requested by the BBC, such as phone records or diary entries, could then be withheld on the grounds of executive privilege or risks to national security.
