BBC asks judge to force Trump to sit for deposition in his own lawsuit against the channel

Lawyers for the BBC are requesting a Florida court to force President Donald Trump to appear for a deposition in the defamation case he filed against the British broadcaster. The BBC claims Trump canceled a previously agreed-upon deposition date last week, citing "matters of national importance." According to attorney Charles D. Tobin, "Two months of discovery remaining, the BBC still has not been able to depose, and does not even have a schedule to depose, the most central figure in this case: Plaintiff himself."

The BBC and Trump have been in dispute over a documentary the broadcaster aired, which the BBC admitted spliced together quotes from different parts of Trump's 2021 Jan. 6 speech to make it appear he was directly urging violence. The BBC has denied Trump's claims of defamation and apologized for the edit, but Trump continues to seek damages, seeking $10 billion in the $10 billion defamation case.