BBC to seek Trump’s impeachment

London- The BBC, the British public broadcaster, will file a motion to dismiss a $10 Billion Lawsuit Filed by President Trump about a 2024 documentary that stitched together parts of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech, according to a court document filed Monday. The BBC maintains that the court does not have jurisdiction to hear the case and that Trump’s lawyers are wrong to claim that he suffered harm because of the documentary.

The lawsuit, filed last month by Trump’s legal team in the Southern District of Florida, includes one count of defamation and one count of violation of a Florida trade practices law. Trump’s legal team is seeking $5 billion in damages on each count, for a total of $10 billion, court documents reviewed by News themezone show.

The 33-page December complaint filed by Trump’s lawyers accuses the BBC of publishing “a false, defamatory, misleading, derogatory, inflammatory and malicious depiction” of him in a documentary for the BBC’s “Panorama” program, which aired in the United Kingdom a week before the 2024 US election.

A portion of the documentary focused on Trump’s words and actions that led to the riots at the US Capitol It is January 6, 2021.

The lawsuit claims that the BBC “intentionally and maliciously sought to completely deceive its viewers” by “splicing together” two clips of the same speech Trump gave to supporters in Washington before the riots began.

Trump’s legal team claims the two clips were 55 minutes apart, and the BBC edition omitted “his statement calling for peace” in the same speech. The president had ordered his supporters to the Capitol, where lawmakers would soon vote to confirm the election results in favor of former President Joe Biden.

In the latest court papers released Monday, the BBC’s legal team said it will argue that the Florida court should dismiss the lawsuit because “the defamation case arises out of a documentary that the defendants, the British Broadcasting Corporation (“the BBC”), BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. and BBC Studios Productions Ltd., did not create in Florida, produce in Florida, or broadcast in Florida.”

BBC lawyers will also argue that the case did not harm or defame Trump, highlighting the fact that he was re-elected after the documentary was broadcast in Britain, and that Trump decisively won the state of Florida.

The BBC’s legal team also argues that a claim made in Trump’s lawsuit, alleging that the documentary was made available in the US through a streaming service, is inaccurate.

“The plaintiff alleges that the documentary was available in the US on the BritBox streaming service. But simply clicking on the link the plaintiff cites for this point shows that it is not on BritBox. Nor was it ever available on BritBox,” according to the filing by law firm Ballard Spahr, which represents the BBC.

Trump’s legal team has provided no evidence that the documentary was created “with true malice,” Ballard Spahr said Monday.

“As we have made clear previously, we will defend this case. We will not be commenting further on the ongoing legal proceedings,” a BBC spokesperson told News themezone on Tuesday when asked about the organization’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit.

News themezone reached out to Trump’s lawyer, Alejandro Brito, for a response to the BBC’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit.

He The BBC formally apologized to Trump in November, saying in a statement that the edited portion of the Panorama documentary had given “the erroneous impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action.”

“While the BBC sincerely regrets the way the video clip was edited, we do not agree that there is any basis for a defamation claim,” the BBC’s legal team said at the time, adding that it had “no plans to broadcast the documentary ‘Trump: A Second Chance?’ on any BBC platform.”

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