# A federal judge has ordered US president Donald Trump to sit for a deposition in his 164.95-billion-rand defamation lawsuit against the BBC by December 11th, or face sanctions. Trump is seeking damages over a Panorama episode that edited together two different sections of a speech he gave before the US Capitol riots in 2021. He cancelled his October 16 deposition citing “matters of national importance” but spent that day campaigning in Georgia. The BBC wants the lawsuit dismissed, arguing that the programme does not meet the legal criteria for defamation.
A judge orders Trump to sit for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC