La BBC promette di difendersi nella causa da 10 miliardi di dollari contro Donald Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/16/bbc-bosses-right-to-stick-by-their-guns-against-trump-says-minister
di FookinBlinders
La BBC promette di difendersi nella causa da 10 miliardi di dollari contro Donald Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/16/bbc-bosses-right-to-stick-by-their-guns-against-trump-says-minister
di FookinBlinders
29 commenti
Wow this lawsuit doubles in size every day? By the time anyone hears it it’ll be worth more than the income of the whole world!
The Big D giving off heavy Dr. Evil energy with this demand. I hope the bbc rinses him and then counter sues
Remember UK and US defamation cases have different standards of burden(Johnny Depp Amber heard case came to different results in UK and US).
Im no fan of President Trump but i would like to see him succeed here. Something like this has been a long time coming for the BBC.
Figure keeps going skywards starter at 50 million only yesterday 5 billion.
The orange prick can shove it up his arse, even if he wins the case from dodgy political judges they (we) should point blank refuse to pay.
I doubt Trump will stop at this. He will probably try and get the BBC banned and journalists kicked out of America if the BBC don’t give him cash.
Seems like a pointless effort TBF. If you want to claim reputational damage, you need a reputation to defend.
Get him to prove where he’s lost that much money through them editing down words he actually said.
I suspect though he will start punishing uk and sticking tariffs on us, then Starmer will cave like a weakling to appease the cry baby
It’d be nice for someone to tell the orange nonce ‘no’ for the first time in his pathetic little life.
What happened directly after the President spoke? QED
Wasn’t the Epstein files due to be released later this week? I can’t help but feel this announcement is aimed at burying that news.
How shocking. You mean they aren’t just going to pay $10bn?
Does a lawsuit lodged in a court in Florida have any standing at all in a foreign country? Say, the UK? Or Timbuktu? Or anywhere else? Answer: of course not. It’s a big publicity stunt with zero chance of being heard, let alone won. Look up international law in regard to *jurisdictions*.
Honestly just fight it until that fucker rolls over and dies. Probably cheaper than any settlement offer cause he ain’t got much more time.
I’m sure as per the UK will back down and appease our American overlords in one way or another over this (we have been essentially a US vassle state for quite awhile)
Be nice if we actually told him to go stick it where the sun don’t shine though
Pretty sure there’ll be British lawyers willing to work pro bono to defend the BBC against that tyrant.
Disclosure will be fun.
BBC should request that Trump provides all related information.
That’s usually when he chickens out.
The real issue here is that the cost of fighting the case will be less than the amount he’ll take to settle, so unless the case gets thrown out or the BBC can just ignore it somehow, I imagine they will be forced to settle.
Just crown him ‘Sports Personality of the Year’, and we can all move on from this debacle.
Lets face it. He is brining this case in Florida where he hopes his pet judge Eileen Cannon will be handed control. She will quite obviously do everyrhing she can to please her master in hopes of getting onto the Supreme Court when the next member croaks.
The BBC should pull out of America, take Bluey with them. We’ll win in the end.
$10 billion.. Yeah, no problem, just increase the TV license to £500 a year, that should cover the $10b plus legal costs…
The idiot couldn’t even say what the accusations were. He went off on one of his rambling nonsense speeches.
I think Trump’s normal tactic will fail here. There was a US lawyer on the radio earlier explaining that the BBC should just make a settlement offer of something like 10m, which will make it go away, because it will cost 100m to fight it.
Ultimately the BBC is not at the mercy of normal commercial pressures and the British public hate Trump. I’d rather they burnt the sum total of the licence fee in a big pile rather than give a penny to Trump and I think most people think the same way.
If he made the lawsuit out for 35 trillion he could eliminate the US debt, why didn’t he do it?
Just remember everyone, this is an attack on British taxpayers, nothing else. Trump and America are your enemy, just like Russia.
Uk trying to prosecute US companies = good shit
Us trying to prosecute UK companies: how dare he, the orange man 😤
To quote the Financial Times analysis:
>How strong is the case?
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>Several lawyers are sceptical about the prospects of a courtroom victory for Trump.
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>Jeffrey Smele, head of media and communications disputes at Simons Muirhead Burton, said the claim was “extravagant” and that the BBC had “some good grounds on which to fight”.
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>The president “is going to face a challenge establishing real damage”, Smele said, adding that Trump “wasn’t even aware of the edited clip at the time” and it “clearly didn’t interfere too much with the [2024] election because he won”.
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>.. Dominic Crossley, head of dispute resolution at Payne Hicks Beach, said that “to a UK lawyer’s eye”, the claim seemed “ludicrously overstated and unlikely to withstand serious legal scrutiny”.