Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC took an unexpected turn in a Miami federal court on Tuesday, when a judge ruled that the President's sweeping claims of damage would allow BBC lawyers to dig into his financial records across hundreds of companies.
Trump sued the British broadcaster in December 2025, alleging that the BBC deceptively edited his 6 January 2021 speech in Washington, D.C., to make it sound as though he had called for violence.
