Hopefully, he can find it. Who am I kidding, the SS will guide him back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQxZ9Sv68Jg

He drops the suit in three, two...

Well he will probably wait for Tuesday.

Not sure he can do that without consequence. A quick Googling suggests that once the case has gone to discovery like this one, both sides need to agree to a dismissal and if the BBC thinks they have a strong case (which I think they probably do) they would would demand compensation. They spent a lot of resources fighting this already, after all.

Now another round of appeals to push this out another year

Trump always loses in discovery because things are "discovered".

Things like "facts".

Oh, man. I'd love to see him on the witness stand. Especially if it's in the UK and the judge wears one of those funny wigs.

the SS

I see what you did there

Unfortunately the case is being heard in Miami, Florida.

... because under UK (English) law you can only claim damages for actual harm which is basically zero.

Unfortunately the case is being heard in Miami, Florida.

Gross. So not only do we not get a silly wig, we'll probably get a Trump crony judge too.

Its because libel cases need to be brought within 1 year of publication.

So he'll drop it, BBC will be awarded compensation, and he won't pay it.

All "fake news", according to him.

And then the BBC sues, wins, and eventually they just start seizing assets.

Trump has lost court cases and has paid out before.

If anyone knows how to stall the legal process, it's little t. "Eventually" means nothing.

That is true but trump had several months of complaining about it when he could have bought a claim but didn't. In any case there's no incentive to claim in UK because there would be nothing to win, except he might get his legal fees back (but even that isn't guaranteed).

He couldn’t, as he started complaining about it over a year after it was broadcast, when the BBC Board published its report into their investigation of the progtamme.

E Jean Carol would disagree.

Why would they investigate without a complaint.

But back to my main point, even if he was libelled (he wasn't) he wouldn't win anything in the UK. The whole point of the legal action is to try and silence anything critical of the regime and the only way that can be successful is under us law.

I am eager to see him defend his narcissistic hallucinations in a British courtroom.

$5.6M. The larger amount is still held up, though it is in escrow. And he's abused his office to grift way more than that, so it's just chump change. Not to mention that it'll be a lot hard for the UK to get him to pay up.

He will never sit. He will drag it out as long as possible, or at least until after the midterm.

If I learned anything from Knowledge Fight, its that you can stretch out sitting for a deposition and court case for fucking years.

He will insist he knows the laws, he's dealt with them before, he can handle it, and have zero concept he's dealing with His Majesty's Court and not the Federal Courts his cronies helped him stack until its too late.

Actually, as i finish typing it I'm realizing that's probably how he let this one get so far.

The BBC will just seize one of his golf courses through the courts.

It's going to be absolutely hilarious right up to the point he decides to nuke Scotland as payback.

Several months after broadcast, a memo on the subject of impartiality, written by an external advisor to the BBC’s Editorial Standards Committee, raised concerns about the editing of the programme.

A few months after this, the memo was leaked by the Telegraph, leading to the resignation of the Director General and of the CEO of BBC News. The BBC Board was forced to make the matter public. This is when the White House learned of it, 12 months after broadcast.

I'll make the popcorn.

Right now he would nuke the UK before he would appear in a British courtroom.

...and yet the offending clips were broadcast in full on national tv less than 12 months before trump sued, and the full documentary available to view on iPlayer within that 12 month period (I literally only watched it on iPlayer because of the controversy)

Regardless, under UK law the time limit can be increased if you only become aware of the libel after the deadline has passed.

Doesn’t matter. The window closed 12 months after original broadcast. You don’t get a reset each time its viewed.

She is literally an example of someone who did get paid.

Yes, that was why I said it.

She’s the perfect example. He still hasn’t paid her what he owes.

British courts are way too chickenshit to challenge a rich person like that.

If he does not show up, just bin the case and mame him pay all costs for the court and BBCs lawyers.

Pretty please make it publically available

If he does not show up, just bin the case and mame him

I like where you're coming from, but it's spelled "maim."

Livestream when?

Put up or shut up, big boi.

Nah arrest him. That's the law

I was thinking we throw an arcade cabinet at him?

In this case, some he is the plan plaintiff, I assume that wouldn't happen, just his case will get thrown out.

They hid the button on him last season. He's just like his dad.

The Teflon don.

You don't have to be President Pedophile to delay a deposition.

I was in an accident a few years back. The other driver came into my lane and I tried to go around him, but failed. My best guess is that he fell asleep and just drove over the double yellow line. We hit in an offset head on collision, passenger side to passenger side.

The other driver had the state mandated minimum coverage, and the accident caused about $20,000 damage to my car. My insurance sued the other driver.

It took years to get the other driver to show up for the deposition. They'd schedule it, I'd take the day off, then the other driver would cancel at the last minute.

Eventually we all got into the same law office for the deposition. My insurance's lawyer put me in a room to read over the transcript* from my statement after the accident and asked me if I had any questions. Then they stepped out to see if the other driver and his lawyer were ready.

When he came back he said they settled.

They were hoping they'd get me to not show up so they could get the case dismissed. When they finally realized that would never happen, they gave up.

I might have not been so determined, but I have generous PTO (for an American), and the other driver lied to police at the accident and said I entered his lane. Luckily (?), the accident destroyed the windshield washer reservoir in my car, so it dumped all that out at the point of impact. It also destroyed the right front tire, so the rim dug parallel furrows into the street leading from where I ended up back to where the accident happened in my lane.

* If you ever have the opportunity to read an insurance company transcript of yourself, avoid it if possible. They note every dumb "uh" and "um" you utter.

Oh gods, he'd be the kid "playing" the arcade machines without putting in any quarters, and believing that he was the one winning on the screen.

Taco Tuesday 😏

Oh man; PLEASE issue a bench warrant for Trump.

I know popcorn better than anyone, better than sleepy joe, who claimed he took popcorn behind the shed, but he could barely keep his eyes open, so someone told me this guy popcorn is an athlete, so you know I rarely do this, but I stared at popcorns ass and his legs and his huge popcorn dick in the changing room, we love changing rooms, don’t we folks - and that thing was big, swinging to and fro, and popcorn said to me with tears in his eyes “sir, build the people a magnificent ballroom, one like they’ve never seen before, with drones and beautiful marble, and grass that has a life”, and I knew popcorn was special because so few people know grass has a life.

I didn't even think the venue would be British.

Do they ever televise that stuff? I need some serious schadenfreude.