The BBC has sought to subpoena members of Donald Trump’s family for documents and testimony as it fights the US president’s $10bn (£7.4bn) defamation lawsuit against it.
Trump is seeking damages of $5bn each on two counts, alleging the BBC defamed him and violated a Florida law that bars deceptive and unfair trade practices over an edit of a BBC Panorama.
Why did Trump launch a lawsuit against the BBC?
Shortly before the 2024 US presidential election, the BBC broadcast a Panorama episode, Trump, A Second Chance? that featured edited together clips of two different sections of a speech in which he addressed his supporters on 6 January 2021, the day of the Capitol building riots.
The documentary has faced criticism for giving the impression Trump had encouraged his supporters to storm the building.
