{"id":30269,"date":"2026-01-13T04:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=30269"},"modified":"2026-01-13T04:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:27:33","slug":"bbc-to-file-motion-to-dismiss-trump-defamation-lawsuit-over-panorama-edit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2026\/01\/13\/bbc-to-file-motion-to-dismiss-trump-defamation-lawsuit-over-panorama-edit\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC to file motion to dismiss Trump defamation lawsuit over Panorama edit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC will take steps to have Donald Trump&#8217;s lawsuit over a January 6 Panorama edit thrown out, court documents show.<\/p>\n<p>The US president\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/trump-files-5bn-lawsuit-against-bbc-over-panorama-edit-13484000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed a defamation lawsuit<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0over the broadcaster&#8217;s editing of a speech he made in 2021, on the day his supporters stormed the Capitol building.<\/p>\n<p>Clips were spliced together from sections of the US president&#8217;s speech to show him saying: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to walk down to the Capitol&#8230; and I&#8217;ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It aired in the near-hour-long documentary Trump: A Second Chance?, which was broadcast by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/bbc-6800\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the week before the US election.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/trump-9462\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>US president<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is seeking damages of $5bn (\u00a33.7bn) under a defamation lawsuit. He has also sued for $5bn for alleged violation of a trade practices law. Both lawsuits were filed in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>A BBC spokesperson said in a statement: &#8220;As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case. We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Court documents show the broadcaster will file a motion to dismiss the lawsuits, claiming the Florida court lacks &#8220;personal jurisdiction&#8221; over the organisation, that the court venue is &#8220;improper&#8221;, and that Mr Trump has &#8220;failed to state a claim&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The corporation will argue that it did not create, produce or broadcast the documentary in Florida and that Mr Trump&#8217;s claim the documentary was available in the US on streaming service BritBox is not true.<\/p>\n<p>It will also claim the president has failed to &#8220;plausibly allege&#8221; the broadcaster published the documentary with &#8220;actual malice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has asked the court to effectively halt parties from most evidence-gathering, pending the decision on the motion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\" data-testid=\"article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/26\/01\/768x432\/skynews-tim-davies_7133802.jpg?20260113035908\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/26\/01\/384x216\/skynews-tim-davies_7133802.jpg?20260113035908 380w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/26\/01\/768x432\/skynews-tim-davies_7133802.jpg?20260113035908 760w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/26\/01\/1600x900\/skynews-tim-davies_7133802.jpg?20260113035908 1024w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/26\/01\/2048x1152\/skynews-tim-davies_7133802.jpg?20260113035908 2048w\" alt=\"Tim Davie resigned as the BBC's director-general. Pic: PA\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption\"><span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption-text\">Tim Davie resigned as the BBC&#8217;s director-general. (Image: PA)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/bbc-apologises-to-donald-trump-over-editing-of-panorama-but-says-there-isnt-basis-for-defamation-claim-13469922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apologised to the US president in November<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for an &#8220;error of judgement&#8221;, but said it disagreed there was &#8220;a basis for a defamation claim&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The fallout from the saga\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/tim-davie-and-deborah-turnesss-resignation-letters-in-full-and-the-bbc-response-13467776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>led to the resignation<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of both the BBC director-general Tim Davie and the head of news Deborah Turness.<\/p>\n<p>If the case should continue, a 2027 trial date has been proposed.<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Sky News\" width=\"100\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/bbc-to-file-motion-to-dismiss-trump-defamation-lawsuit-over-panorama-edit-court-documents-show-13493569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The BBC will take steps to have Donald Trump&#8217;s lawsuit over a January 6 Panorama edit thrown out, court documents show. The US president\u00a0filed a defamation lawsuit\u00a0over the broadcaster&#8217;s editing of a speech he made <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2026\/01\/13\/bbc-to-file-motion-to-dismiss-trump-defamation-lawsuit-over-panorama-edit\/\" title=\"BBC to file motion to dismiss Trump defamation lawsuit over Panorama edit\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[2144,6925,12012,1023,285,417,12011,7547,8164],"class_list":{"0":"post-30269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-uk","9":"tag-bbc","10":"tag-bbc-panorama","11":"tag-britbox","12":"tag-defamation","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-trade-practices-law","16":"tag-us-capitol-riots","17":"tag-us-election-2020","18":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30271,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30269\/revisions\/30271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}