Trump urges court to reject BBC records bid

U.S. President Donald Trump has asked a federal judge in Miami to dismiss the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) bid for court assistance in obtaining testimony and documents from three of his family members. The request stems from Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster. Trump's attorneys argue that the BBC is attempting to gain politically motivated leverage over him by issuing subpoenas to his daughter Ivanka Trump, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and son Donald Trump Jr. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Kuntz, who was nominated by Trump, has not yet ruled on the issue.

The previous judge assigned the case to Kuntz set a trial date for February. In May, a BBC process server attempted to serve subpoenas on Ivanka Trump and Kushner at their home but was stopped by Secret Service agents. The same process server tried to serve Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower in New York several days later. The BBC has apologized for the misleading edit of Trump's speech near the White House on January 6, 2021, when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden's victory over Trump.

However, the broadcaster denies defaming the president and claims that its documentary was aired a week before the 2024 presidential election as part of a political campaign to harm Trump's chances of winning.