MIAMI, Florida, USA.- This Monday, the BBC formally requested a court in Miami, Florida, USA, dismiss the lawsuit for 10,000 million dollars presented by the president of the United States, Donald Trumpwho accuses the British network of having edited in a “misleading” way are speech of January 6, 2021 in a documentary.
In a motion, the BBC alleged today that Trump has failed to substantiate his defamation claim and that the Florida court lacks “personal jurisdiction” over the British broadcaster.
The president “fails to plausibly allege that the defendants (…) published the documentary with actual malice,” details the legal document, which also requests a hearing to address the matter.
He also adds that the BBC nor the production companies of the Studios group “are domiciled in Florida, nor have any of them established sufficient minimum contacts to comply with Florida statutes or constitutional due process.”
The BBC also again denied that the content was distributed through the plataforma BritBox in the United States.
These allegations “are incorrect and inappropriate. The plaintiff also cannot base general jurisdiction on the fact that BBC.com publishes news about Florida or that BBC.com and BritBox have subscribers in Florida,” the document states.
The BBC formally asks a court in Miami (USA) to dismiss the $10 billion lawsuit filed against it by the president of the United States, Donald Trump.https://t.co/MqByal4cjB
— EFE News (@EFEnoticias) March 16, 2026
The documentary aired days before the November 2024 election on the BBC’s Panorama program and allegedly stitched together separate sections of Trump’s speech to suggest that he was going to walk with his supporters to the Capitol and “fight like hell,” an edit he considers “false, defamatory and malicious.”
The case caused the resignation last November of the general director, Tim Daviethe head of news, Deborah Turnessand a member of the supervisory board, after the controversy over the editing of the documentary.
Although the British network apologized last year for the error, it refused to pay compensation.
Judge Roy K. Altman, who had already refused to dismiss the case, last month scheduled the trial for February 2027, in addition to ordering mediation in March and selection of expert witnesses in September.
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