President Donald Trump missed a scheduled legal deposition with the BBC on October 16 by citing “matters of national importance,” but court documents show he attended a campaign rally and a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago on that same day, the Telegraph reports. This development comes as the broadcaster pushes for a judge to force the President to provide a sworn statement in an ongoing 10 billion dollar defamation case.
The BBC legal team is frustrated by the delay, as they have been trying to schedule this deposition for some time before the formal court proceedings begin next year. In their latest filing in Florida, the lawyers for the broadcaster suggested that the President had been dragged “kicking and screaming” to avoid this meeting.
