Trump is suing the BBC for Ten Billion USD.

[opps]

The Beeb did it very badly. There should have been much better separation of the two clips so they didn't seem linked.

I agree that they should have made it clear that they had spliced the two clips together. I haven't seen the programme. I have no idea if it was balanced or not. Does anyone know if they make it clear, later in the programme, that they had spliced the intro? Trump seems to be fixated on that one clip. Bizarrely, he claims they used AI to put words in his mouth.

I still do not understand his initial claim that it lost him votes (electoral interference) and caused him reputational and financial harm. The programme did not air in the USA and any Americans living in the UK would have posted their ballots weeks earlier.

Much like his success in Venezuela buoyed him to attack Iran, I suspect that his wins against ABC et al convinced him to after the BBC. The key difference is that the other media firms paid out because he made it clear that he might revoke their broadcast licences and block their mergers. The BBC have no such incentive to roll over.

A total of 570,000 people watched the episode on iPlayer in the year after it was released (some of those would have watched it more than once or only watched bits of it). 285 are from IP addresses that could have been based in America, and 34 of those were from Florida, where the case is being heard. It is possible that no one in Florida watched the programme in the USA before the election. Trump won Florida by 13.1%

 

[fillyboy]

I agree that they should have made it clear that they had spliced the two clips together. I haven't seen the programme. I have no idea if it was balanced or not. Does anyone know if they make it clear, later in the programme, that they had spliced the intro? Trump seems to be fixated on that one clip. Bizarrely, he claims they used AI to put words in his mouth.

I still do not understand his initial claim that it lost him votes (electoral interference) and caused him reputational and financial harm. The programme did not air in the USA and any Americans living in the UK would have posted their ballots weeks earlier.

Much like his success in Venezuela buoyed him to attack Iran, I suspect that his wins against ABC et al convinced him to after the BBC. The key difference is that the other media firms paid out because he made it clear that he might revoke their broadcast licences and block their mergers. The BBC have no such incentive to roll over.

A total of 570,000 people watched the episode on iPlayer in the year after it was released (some of those would have watched it more than once or only watched bits of it). 285 are from IP addresses that could have been based in America, and 34 of those were from Florida, where the case is being heard. It is possible that no one in Florida watched the programme in the USA before the election. Trump won Florida by 13.1%

What's all that got to do with defamation?

 

[noseall]

What's all that got to do with defamation?

Trumps claim?

Zero.

 

[noseall]

Bizarrely, he claims they used AI to put words in his mouth.

He claims a lot of things. It's one of the reasons he lives in fear of testifying under oath. The words are his and in sequence.

 

[Brigadier]

I still do not understand his initial claim that it lost him votes (electoral interference) and caused him reputational and financial harm

When you consider it in context - the ravings of a bullying moron, who surrounds himself with sycophants who'll agree with everything he says - it makes total sense.

 

[MNW67]

What's all that got to do with defamation?

What is the reputational harm to him in Florida if nobody or almost nobody in Florida saw it?

 

[Brigadier]

What is the reputational harm to him in Florida if nobody or almost nobody in Florida saw it?

Orangina just being is his reputational harm, all on its own

 

[blup]

Trumpf sued the beeb because they told the truth about him.

 

[noseall]

they told the truth about him.

That must have hurt. I suppose when a fragile ego surrounds itself with sycophants that are ordered to fawn, then the actual truth must be difficult to listen to.

 

[blup]

God bless Ontario

 

[noseall]

Trumpf sued the beeb because they told the truth about him.

I do hope it reachers court.

 

[blup]

I do hope it reachers court.

There’s only so long he can drag it out. He will lose interest after 2028

 

[motorbiking]

Post #409 above

I think there may be some media spin on this. There is a well established process for serving on people in office in the US.

Also the alternative (that we have) allows bad actors to deliberately serve on incorrect addresses to obtain default judgements so that the first the person knows is when someone turns up and lifts their car off the drive.

 

[opps]

I think there may be some media spin on this. There is a well established process for serving on people in office in the US.

Also the alternative (that we have) allows bad actors to deliberately serve on incorrect addresses to obtain default judgements so that the first the person knows is when someone turns up and lifts their car off the drive.

Why do you assume it is spin? Do you really think that the secret service would allow an ordinary Joe to approach Ivanka and hand her a letter? Ain't gonna happen, hence the BBC asking for a route to serve the papers.

 

[noseall]

I think there may be some media spin on this

From which side?