BBC is trying to gain “politically motivated leverage” against D. Trump by serving subpoenas to his daughter Ivanka, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and son Donald Trump Jr., according to a document submitted to the court on Friday by the Republican president’s personal lawyers.
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Miami U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Kuntzas has not yet made a decision on this matter.
J. Kuntzas, who was nominated to the judgeship by D. Trump himself, took over the president’s lawsuit from another judge less than a week ago. The court documents did not specify the reason for the case transfer. The previous judge had scheduled the court proceedings to begin in February.
In May, a court courier attempted to serve subpoenas to I. Trump and J. Kushner at their residence but encountered Secret Service agents who stated they were not authorized to accept them, according to the president’s lawyers. They claim that a few days later, the courier also visited the Trump Tower building in New York but was unable to serve the subpoena to D. Trump Jr.
Last week, in a document submitted to the court, the broadcaster requested the court’s permission to serve subpoenas to D. Trump’s family members by registered mail rather than in person.
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In the lawsuit filed in December, BBC is accused of deceptively editing parts of his speech delivered at the White House on January 6, 2021. At that time, his supporters stormed the Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over D. Trump. The lawsuit claims that BBC combined different parts of D. Trump’s speech to deliberately distort his words.
The lawsuit states that BBC aired its documentary a week before the 2024 presidential election, thus “brazenly attempting to interfere with the results and influence them” to D. Trump’s detriment.
“The measures requested by the BBC request cannot be separated from the politically charged evidence-gathering campaign on which it is based and which this Court has already found to be unjustifiably broad,” wrote D. Trump’s lawyers.
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BBC apologized to D. Trump for the misleading editing but denies defaming him.
