Trump Narrows $10 Billion BBC Suit, Limiting Access to 400 Companies' Financial Records
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Updated · Forbes · Aug 10
Trump Narrows $10 Billion BBC Suit, Limiting Access to 400 Companies' Financial Records
3 articles · Updated · Forbes · Aug 10
Summary
Judge Roy K. Altman let Donald Trump amend his BBC defamation suit to drop claims that the documentary damaged his businesses, leaving only alleged harm to his personal reputation.
That change undercuts the BBC’s push for broad financial discovery, which sought trust records, tax returns and valuations tied to about 400 Trump-linked companies to test his original $10 billion damages claim.
Altman said Trump showed good cause to amend and ordered the updated complaint filed Monday, but left the fight over what the BBC can still subpoena to Magistrate Judge Edwin Lett.
The ruling may also aid the BBC by shrinking potential damages and narrowing the issues for its renewed dismissal bid in the case over a 2024 documentary’s edited use of Trump’s Jan. 6 remarks.