"Panorama faced criticism in 2025, over an episode broadcast in 2024, for giving the impression the US president had encouraged his supporters to storm the Capitol building in 2021. The spliced clips in the edition of Panorama suggested that Trump told the crowd: We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell. The words were taken from sections of his speech almost an hour apart."
"The BBC will file a motion to dismiss, claiming the Florida court lacks personal jurisdiction over them, the court venue is improper and that Trump has failed to state a claim, documents filed on Monday evening revealed."
"In asking for discovery to be delayed, lawyers for the BBC said: The plaintiff will seek broad, objectionable discovery on the merits, implicating the BBC's entire scope of coverage of Donald J Trump over the past decade or more and claiming injury to his entire business and political profiles."
The BBC will file a motion to dismiss Donald Trump's $10bn defamation lawsuit, arguing the Florida court lacks personal jurisdiction, the venue is improper, and the claim fails to state a cause of action. The broadcaster will assert it did not create, produce, or broadcast the Panorama documentary in Florida and that the programme was not available in the US on BritBox as claimed. BBC lawyers said the plaintiff's BritBox link does not show availability. The BBC will argue Trump has not plausibly alleged actual malice and has asked the court to stay discovery pending resolution. A 2027 trial date has been proposed.
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