The creator performs a satirical skit portraying the courtroom proceedings of Donald Trump's lawsuit against the BBC. He plays multiple roles, including Trump's lawyer, the judge, and the BBC's lawyer, to explain the basis of the lawsuit (deceptive editing), the BBC's defense, and the subsequent legal wrangling over Trump's refusal to testify under oath. The skit uses news clips and article screenshots as evidence to humorously break down the real-life events of the case.
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Trump sued the BBC but won’t testify under oath.
A federal judge in Florida ordered President Donald Trump on Thursday to sit for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11 or face the possibility of having his $10 billion action dismissed.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett handed down the order after the BBC’s lawyers complained that Trump was stalling. He was supposed to sit for a deposition on Oct. 16 but canceled it for a “matter of national importance.”
BBC attorney Charles Tobin told Lett that was “fake news” — the matter turned out to be a political rally and a fundraiser.
“He was participating in party politics and supported his candidates in the election, and he prioritized that over his obligations in this proceeding,” Tobin said.
Trump’s attorneys had proposed postponing his deposition until late January, which Tobin said was too late. Discovery in the case is supposed to close Dec. 18, and Trump is the most important witness in the case since he’s the one who claims he suffered billions of dollars in damages from the BBC’s 2024 story, Tobin said.
Caption from article by Dareh Gregorian and Erika Angulo, NBC News.
Transcript
Your honor, we are here today on behalf of my client, President Donald J. Trump. Yeah. Where is he? He's doing presidential stuff. Anyway, the BBC broadcasted a story about January 6 and they took a speech from my client, president Trump, and they spliced together two moments that were fifty four minutes apart. We're gonna walk down to the Capitol. Here's where they spliced it together. And I'll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not gonna have a country anymore. In doing so, they also omitted a portion where president Trump said that supporters should protest peacefully. Your honor, my client, the BBC, has already apologized for the edit, but we maintain that we strongly disagree tier is a basis for a defamation claim. We think there is a basis, your honor, and that it violates Florida's unfair and deceptive trade practices act. That's why we're here in Florida suing the BBC for $10,000,000,000. I rest my case. Okay. Thank you for summarizing your lawsuit once again. As I was saying before, we are eight months into discovery and seven people from the BBC have been deposed. Good. But we still need president Trump to testify. Under oath? Yeah. What what day were you thinking? October 16. Oh my gosh. What terribly bad luck president Trump is busy that day. What does he have to do of such importance on that day? He's dealing with matters of national importance. So His name is actually Abdullah. It's Abdullah. Judge, as we now know, president Trump was speaking at tier political rally on October 16 and doing nothing of national importance. It's a valid point. I'm ordering that he has to come in by December 11. Well, hold on. We're doing all this while we're still in the discovery phase? Yes. And president Trump will have to answer truthfully under oath for several hours of questioning. Can we make it so the deposition is not filmed? No. Why does he have to testify anyway? What is this? Because he's the one who brought the case. Order. Better, yeah. Because he's the one who brought the case. Okay. What if he testified in January? No. Stop trying to run at the clock. Rank we just remember why we're here?
