US President Donald Trump in Bid to Block Release of Financial Records in BBC Defamation Case
The judge paused a production order as Trump seeks to narrow damages claims to reputational injury, limiting trust-wide financial disclosure.
- On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Roy Altman granted an emergency motion to pause an order requiring the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust to disclose confidential financial records to the British Broadcasting Corporation.
- President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for defamation over a 2024 Panorama documentary, but his legal team now seeks to amend the complaint to focus solely on reputational injury rather than business damages.
- Trump's attorneys argued the BBC's subpoena for records across approximately 400 entities was a "shockingly broad" fishing expedition based on "clearly political motivations" rather than legitimate discovery needs.
- Enforcement of the discovery order, which required a "substantial production" of documents by August 6, remains stayed pending the court's decision on the motion to file an amended complaint.
- The BBC, which has already produced 88,855 pages of documentation, opposed the stay and accused the trust of a "transparent effort to evade" the court's original discovery requirements.
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The Independent (US)Trump wins bid to delay release of financial records in $10bn BBC defamation case
The US president’s legal team has secured an emergency suspension of a judge’s ruling that he must turn over documents sought by the broadcaster
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