President Donald Trump is asking a federal judge to reject the BBC’s attempt to subpoena three members of his family as part of discovery in his defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster.
Trump’s attorneys filed a memorandum Aug. 21 opposing the BBC’s request for permission to use alternative methods to serve subpoenas on Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner.
Trump’s lawyers accused the BBC of attempting to transform what they described as a narrow defamation case into a broad investigation of the events surrounding Jan. 6, 2021.
The lawsuit concerns a BBC documentary in which the BBC spliced together portions of the president’s Jan. 6 speech, delivered nearly 55 minutes apart, while omitting his statement that supporters should march “peacefully and patriotically” to the U.S. Capitol. …