Analysis: Trump’s bizarre $10 billion BBC lawsuit has even more holes than his other media actions
Up until this year, it was unheard of for a sitting American president to sue a news outlet. In just a few months, President Donald Trump has managed to make it seem normal.
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Trump has sued The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and now the BBC, each time filing suit in Florida and each time alleging defamation.
Numerous legal experts have told CNN that the underlying complaints are weak — and that the publicity may be the real point.
The newest suit, lodged against the BBC this week, charges that a bad edit to a pre-election film was a defamatory attempt to influence American voters, even though the film did not air in the US.
The suit “does not have any legal basis, either on defamation or jurisdictional grounds,” said Bob Corn-Revere, chief counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.