A US judge has rejected the BBC's motion to dismiss Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster allowing the case to proceed to trial. The US president's claim is based on the way the BBC edited a speech he gave on 6 January 2021 in its Panorama documentary. On Tuesday, US District Judge Jeffrey T. Kuntz denied the British broadcaster’s attempt to have the defamation claim dismissed. He did, however, throw out a second claim, which Trump had brought under Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. Each claim was for at least $5bn (€4.48bn), meaning Kuntz's ruling halves the lawsuit from $10 billion (€8.97bn) to at least $5 billion. The case centres on a BBC documentary that spliced together two separate parts of the speech.
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