Trump Bit Off More Than He Could Chew Suing BBC, So DOJ Will Chew It For Him
Discovery’s a bitch, man.
The president has a tried-and-true business model for media trollsuits: fire off a bumptious shakedown letter, sue for billions in damages, and wait for a nervous corporate defendant with business before the government to hand him a check. It worked with Twitter, Meta, Google, and CBS. But it has never once worked in an actual courtroom.
Last November, after a conservative British newspaper published an internal memo accusing the British Broadcasting Corporation of splicing together two sections of Trump’s January 6 speech to imply that he’d exhorted his supporters to violently attack the Capitol, Trump ran the same play. His current defamation lawyer, Alejandro Brito, fired off a nastygram demanding a retraction, an apology, and “appropriate compensation.”
