A federal judge on Tuesday denied the BBC’s motion to throw out President Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit over a documentary about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
\n\nJudge Jeffrey T. Kuntz found that Trump could make an argument that the BBC should be held liable for splicing together two parts of Trump’s speech from that day to make it appear that he incited violence.
\n\n“BBC tries to frame this editing as ordinary editing done to condense a seventy-minute-long speech into twelve seconds. But the Court is not persuaded,” Kuntz ruled. “This was not trimming around the edges but creating something different than what was stated in the speech.”
\n\nTrump celebrated the ruling as “a Huge Victory against Fake News BBC” in a post on Truth Social, and praised Kuntz, whom he appointed to the bench earlier this year, for his “powerful ruling.”
\n\nAs a Florida appellate judge, Kuntz authored an opinion allowing Trump to sue members of the Pulitzer board.
\n\nA spokesperson for the BBC said that the news organization was surprised by the ruling.
\n\n“We are surprised by this decision but respect the Court’s authority and note the case will now proceed to the next…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/