I haven’t been keeping up with the Trump vs. BBC saga much, because as a rule trials make my eyes glaze over. This one, however, may be different:
MAKE no mistake, Donald Trump’s $5billion (£3.7billion) defamation lawsuit against the BBC, filed yesterday, is a formidable document: it is a tightly constructed, meticulously argued claim that accuses the Corporation not merely of error but of intentional deception on a scale that, if proven, could be the most damaging legal defeat in its history.
Filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the complaint names the BBC, BBC Studios Distribution, and BBC Studios Productions as defendants. It seeks $5billion in damages for defamation and for alleged violations of Florida’s consumer protection laws.
What makes the filing so potent is that it weaves the BBC’s factual admissions, internal whistleblowing, patterns of bias in BBC coverage, timing, motive and governance failure – caused essentially by the BBC acting as its own judge and jury – into a coherent narrative of wrongdoing.
…and the article just gets better and better as Dave Keighley lays it all out for TCW’s Brit readers. Read the whole thing.
Best part of all this? The suit has been filed in Florida, where Trump’s a longtime resident (at Mar-A-Lago, for my Brit Readers). In Florida (as opposed to NYfC or Kollyfornia) the jury is going to be made of Floridians, nay even a goodly number of Trump voters who, if all goes Trump’s way, will deliver a sound financial wacking to the BBC’s corporate pee-pee.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of smug, Leftist assholes, who will have their bias and underhanded skulduggery exposed to the entire world.
It’s just too bad that in the end, the financial penalty will be borne by the BBC’s license holders, i.e. the public, rather than by the BBC executives who perpetrated this travesty.
But hey… all the more reason for the Brits to dump the whole licensing bollocks altogether. The public hangings can come later.
I hope Trump wins this case. I hope he’s successful at suing other alleged news agencies
One of the great things about this, along with Nick Sandmann and Kyle Rittenhouse, is that they are finally holding the liberal commie media accountable.
We’ve been in a silent civil war since before I was born, and the liberals have taken over the media, the education system, even large parts of the various church bodies (i.e. wimmen pastures and bishops and allowing ghey marriages). They got the entirety of the Democratic Party and half the Repubs, too, as well as convincing the remaining Repubs that their role is to lose gracefully. They’ve co-opted the language and indoctrinated the youth. We haven’t even started fighting back yet and they are now holding the high ground.
This is really our first real response to those basterds. I’d like to see most of the current media bankrupted and put out to rot. Fuck them all.
I don’t know too much about the nuances of this. If the BBC gets whacked, they long deserve it (ditto CBS, NBC, etc).
But depending on the jurisdiction of things, public figures usually have to prove malicious intent to prevail in these types of things. Again no expert, and don’t really need to be enlightened. If what I have seen is true, there may be an argument here.
If its just a nuisance suit to make sure these bastar…news outlets, at least have to swat some flies out of the way before they decide to destroy someone, that doesn’t hurt either.
It’s not as if the BBC is actually going to pay a cent of it if they lose. They’ll abandon targeting the US market explicitly before doing that.
The BBC really, really doesn’t want this case to go to trial
The discovery, which will include all internal BBC communications, will be highly embarrassing
Should be a lot of fun to watch