BBC to fight Trump’s $10bn lawsuit, saying it should be dismissed
by Michael Savage Media editor from World news | The Guardian on (#72760)
Corporation will argue it did not have rights to air film in US and it did not cause serious reputational harm
The BBC is preparing to argue Donald Trump's $10bn court case against it should be dismissed, arguing it has no case to answer over the US president's claims he was defamed by an episode of Panorama.
The development comes after Trump filed a 33-page complaint to a Florida court on Monday, accusing the broadcaster of a false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory and malicious depiction" of the president in the documentary.
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