US judge orders Trump to sit for deposition in $10bn lawsuit against BBC
Judge threatens to dismiss Trump’s BBC lawsuit unless he cooperates with discovery process and sits for deposition
TL;DR
- US judge Enjoliqué Lett ordered Donald Trump to cooperate with the discovery process in his $10bn lawsuit against the BBC.
- Trump must sit for a deposition by December 11, or face sanctions including possible dismissal of the lawsuit.
- The judge criticized Trump's legal team for not being forthcoming with internal documents.
- A request to prevent the deposition from being videotaped was rejected.
- The BBC's subpoena to Mar-a-Lago was allowed to proceed, as the club was deemed discoverable.
- The lawsuit stems from a BBC Panorama documentary that used comments from a Trump rally before the January 6 Capitol riot.