Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times,
A judge in Florida has ruled President Donald Trump must hand over financial records sought by the BBC for its defense against his $10 billion defamation lawsuit.
The U.S. president is suing the corporation over an episode of “Panorama” that edited together different sections of his speech on the day of the Capitol breach in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
The BBC reported that Judge Enjoliqué Lett granted a motion by the corporation’s legal team to compel the release of financial records held by the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, created to manage his businesses while he is president.
‘Partial Success’
The judge’s ruling at Tuesday’s opening hearing in Miami can still be appealed, but the BBC said it amounts to a “partial success” in its attempt to force Trump to provide evidence for his claim that he suffered financial loss due to the Panorama edit.
The defamation case is currently at the discovery phase, where both sides must provide documents, internal or otherwise, that could form part of their evidence.
The corporation has produced 87,000 pages of documents, according to the BBC’s lawyers, who said Trump’s legal team had released a “sham production” of 735 pages, which they said were “news articles” and other material “pulled from the internet.”
Charles Tobin, counsel for the BBC, said this meant the discovery process had been “entirely one-sided.”
