Judge Orders Trump to Sit for Deposition in $10B BBC Lawsuit
A US judge has given Trump until Dec. 11 to cooperate with discovery or face sanctions, including possible dismissal of his $10bn BBC suit.
A federal judge has ordered Donald Trump to participate in the discovery process for his $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC and to submit to a deposition no later than December 11, warning that failure to comply could result in sanctions up to and including dismissal of the case.
The lawsuit centers on a BBC Panorama documentary that stitched together two remarks Trump made nearly an hour apart during a rally on January 6, 2021, the day of the US Capitol riot. The network has conceded that the specific edit was misleading — a rare public acknowledgment from a major broadcaster — but Trump's legal claims have since expanded well beyond that admission.
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Trump has alleged, without evidence, that the BBC did not merely rearrange his words but used artificial intelligence to fabricate speech he never delivered. Fact-checkers and the BBC have disputed that assertion, and the claim has not been substantiated in court filings reviewed publicly.
The judge's order introduces a hard deadline that places the litigation at a critical procedural crossroads. If Trump declines to cooperate, the court retains authority to impose progressively severe penalties, the most consequential being the outright dismissal of a suit Trump has used to assert a broader pattern of media bias against him. The case underscores ongoing tensions between the former president and international news organizations as he returns to the White House.
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