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    "trial scheduled for February 15 next year",
    "Donald Trump slams Chagos surrender in extraordinary intervention just hours after US gave official backing: 'Do NOT give it away!'",
    "Donald Trump's pastor makes candid admission about President's faith after assassination attempt",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nThe BBC has revealed how it will fight Donald Trump's $10billion-valued lawsuit.\n\nThe national broadcaster told a Florida court it is seeking to dismiss the lawsuit on the grounds Mr Trump failed to establish it defamed him.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe filing from the BBC said it would argue that Panorama's editing of the President's January 6 speech did not break Florida's laws on unfair trading practices.\n\nIt will also argue the editing was not \"a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence\" the outcome of the 2024 election.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nFlorida courts lack jurisdiction to hear the case under state law, federal rules governing civil cases, and the constitution's \"due process\" clause, BBC lawyers will argue.\n\nThey wrote that the \"defendants intend to file a motion to dismiss the complaint in its entirety\", with a request to file a motion longer than the usual 20 pages.\n\nIt added the news organisation intended to \"raise various arguments regarding the court’s lack of general and specific personal jurisdiction over them under Florida law... as well as arguments regarding [Trump’s] failure to state a claim for defamation or for violations of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act\".\n\nThe documentary titled \"Trump: A Second Chance?\", released a week before the 2024 election, contributed to Tim Davie's resignation as BBC director-general and Deborah Turness's as head of BBC News.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe BBC has until March 17 to formally respond to the filed complaint, with a trial scheduled for February 15 next year.\n\nUS district judge Roy Altman, who was appointed by Mr Trump, will preside over the case.\n\nPanorama had spliced together two clips of the President to make it appear as if he was encouraging his supporters to \"fight like hell\" on January 6.\n\nMr Trump's lawsuit filed in Florida said the BBC, in editing the documentary, had \"a false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory and malicious depiction\" of the President.\n\nHis lawyers told the court Florida had jurisdiction because the BBC engaged in \"substantial and not isolated\" activity in the state.\n\n### LATEST ON DONALD TRUMP:\n\n\n\n\n  * Donald Trump slams Chagos surrender in extraordinary intervention just hours after US gave official backing: 'Do NOT give it away!'\n  * Donald Trump's pastor makes candid admission about President's faith after assassination attempt\n  * Goldman Sachs to scrap DEI after Donald Trump's crackdown on diversity agenda\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nAmong this was a BBC office located in Coral Gables, Florida, seven miles from downtown Miami.\n\nCiting usage of virtual private networks (VPNs), the President's lawyers said it was likely that viewers in Florida had seen the documentary before its removal.\n\nThe BBC countered, saying it did not air the documentary in Florida and argued it did not materially damage Trump's reputation.\n\nIt added that it was protected by America's free speech laws, and said Mr Trump's claims the lawsuit was available through streaming service BritBox were untrue.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThis is not the first time Donald Trump has sued a media organisation.\n\nHe previously sued major US newspapers The Washington Post and The New York Times in 2020, cases which were dismissed in 2023.\n\nThe President is filed another £10billion lawsuit with the Wall Street Journal in July last year.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal filed its own motion to dismiss in September last year.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter **",
  "title": "BBC reveals how it will fight Donald Trump's $10billion lawsuit and accuses President of major 'failure'"
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