Judge insists Trump must be deposed in his $10B lawsuit against the BBC, warns it could be tossed in fight over records法官坚持认为，特朗普在其针对BBC的100亿美元诉讼中必须接受质询，并警告称，该诉讼可能因记录争议而被驳回。
A federal judge warned President Donald Trump could see his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC dismissed if he does not work harder to produce information the news outlet it is entitled to in the case, including sitting for a deposition.
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A federal judge warned President Donald Trump could see his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC dismissed if he does not work harder to produce information the news outlet it is entitled to in the case, including sitting for a deposition.
“Engaging in discovery is burdensome, but is a burden we undertake, especially if we file a lawsuit,” Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Aytch Lett told personal attorneys for Trump at a hearing Thursday, where she also backed a subpoena from the BBC for membership records at Mar-a-Lago.
Lett expressed skepticism that Trump and his team had done an adequate job searching for internal documents related to the case.
“I tend to agree with the defendant that it strains credulity that a thorough search has been in order to determine that all of the requests have been responded to,” she said.
Lett also ordered that Trump sit for a deposition by December 11, but she and both parties said there was a likely possibility it could be moved back.
The proceedings showed how the president’s litigiousness comes with risks, including that lawsuits can expose Trump and his businesses to scrutiny from the parties he is suing.
Trump filed the lawsuit against the BBC in December 2025. He alleges he was defamed by the media company with a documentary on his political comeback that aired before the 2024 election, because of how the film spliced two parts of the January 6, 2021, speech he gave in front of the White House before his supporters violently attacked the US Capitol.
The documentary joined one section of his remarks, in which he told his supporters to “walk down to the Capitol,” with a later portion, in which he told the protestors that “we fight like hell.”
In response to an earlier round of discovery disputes, the court said that the BBC was entitled to information shedding light on the “message” of the speech and the “impression” it left. But the court said also said then it was not giving the media company a green light to “relitigate” the events of January 6.
In total, the BBC has issued at least 47 subpoenas to former and current government officials, as well as private advisers in Trump’s circle, who had a window into his efforts to overturn the election – including Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, former Attorney General Bill Barr, and former White House counsel Pat Cipollone.
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一位联邦法官警告唐纳德·特朗普总统，如果他不更加努力地向英国广播公司 (BBC) 提供其在案件中有权获得的信息，包括出席作证，那么他对 BBC 提起的 100 亿美元诽谤诉讼可能会被驳回。
“进行取证是一项繁重的任务，但这是我们必须承担的负担，尤其是在我们提起诉讼的情况下，”治安法官恩乔利克·艾奇·莱特在周四的听证会上对特朗普的私人律师说道。她还在听证会上支持英国广播公司（BBC）向海湖庄园发出传票，要求提供会员记录。
莱特表示怀疑，特朗普及其团队是否在查找与此案相关的内部文件方面做得足够好。
“我倾向于同意被告的观点，即要证明所有请求都已得到回应，需要进行彻底的搜查，这令人难以置信，”她说。
莱特还下令特朗普在 12 月 11 日之前接受质询，但她和双方都表示，质询日期可能会推迟。
诉讼过程表明，总统的诉讼癖会带来风险，包括诉讼可能会使特朗普及其企业受到被起诉方的审查。
特朗普于 2025 年 12 月对 BBC 提起诉讼。他声称，这家媒体公司在 2024 年大选前播出的一部关于他政治复出的纪录片诽谤了他，因为该片将他 2021 年 1 月 6 日在白宫前发表的演讲剪辑成了两部分，而就在该演讲之后，他的支持者暴力袭击了美国国会大厦。
这部纪录片将他讲话的一部分（他在讲话中告诉支持者们“走到国会大厦”）与后面的一部分（他在讲话中告诉抗议者们“我们会拼死战斗”）剪辑在一起。
针对此前一轮的证据开示争议，法院表示，BBC有权获得有助于阐明演讲“信息”及其“影响”的信息。但法院当时也表示，并未允许这家媒体公司就1月6日发生的事件“重新提起诉讼”。
总计，BBC 已向特朗普的前任和现任政府官员以及特朗普圈子里的私人顾问发出至少 47 份传票，这些人有机会了解他试图推翻选举结果的努力——其中包括贾里德·库什纳和伊万卡·特朗普、前司法部长比尔·巴尔和前白宫法律顾问帕特·西波隆。
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