Trump sued the BBC for $10,000,000,000 in monetary harm because he claims the BBC aired a clip of his speech on January 6, 2021 that maliciously and knowingly defamed him. Trump claims the British Broadcasting Corporation viciously, knowingly and deceptively edited his more than hour long January 6, 2021 Ellipse speech to make it sound like he urged an angry, armed crowd, without a parade permit, to walk down to the Capitol and make sure Mike Pence did the right (if not strictly legal) thing, and to fight (peacefully, peacefully!) like hell or they wouldn’t have a country anymore (the savage dark-skinned eaters of pet cats and dogs would get it, and put them all to the sword, presumably). It seems the BBC has no incentive to fold to Trump’s incoherent defamation demands in the TEN BILLION dollar lawsuit against them, like CBS, ABC and other spineless US broadcast corporations.
Now BBC, as the party sued, is entitled to discovery from MAGA man to prove his monetary damages as he tries to prevail on his claim that their version of his speech was inaccurate and deliberately false (defamatory). The court gave the BBC, who has already turned over thousands of pages of evidence to Trump’s lawyers (Trump turned over about 700 pages, fair is fair) the greenlight to get Trump’s relevant business records (evidence of $10,000,000,000 in monetary harm) and depose people who were in his Day of Love War Room, the Oval Office and on the phone with him, in the days leading up to, and including, January 6th. Trump’s lawyers tried to withdraw the monetary damages part a few days ago, to protect his problematic financial records from becoming part of the court file, but the federal magistrate blocked that attempt. Be careful what you wish for, boss.
This childish and vindictive fellow has a thing about not needing to produce evidence of anything. The 2020 Donald Trump for President reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee, prior to the election Trump lost, brought over a hundred lawsuits to try to limit mail-in voting, drop boxes and other forms of early and absentee voting — during the pandemic, mind you. They lost almost all of these cases, for lack of evidence of voter fraud, proof of vote dilution, systematic Black cheating, Libtard cuck cheating, Feminazi cheating, Illegal ALIEN cheating, communist skullduggery, etc.
Remember, Trump claimed, without evidence, of course, that he’d been robbed of the popular vote win in his 2016 Electoral College victory by massive voter fraud, dead Mexicans voting for Hillary by the millions, as I recall him saying. A regular zombie apocalypse. He announced the appointment if Mike Pence and a MAGA schmuck from Kansas named Kobach to head a voter fraud commission. Their rigorous investigation ended in no finding of fraud and they closed up shop without bringing charges against anybody.
Announcing the formation of this voter fraud commission was one of those reptilian Trump propaganda moves, like when he told state election officials to just say there had been fraud and he and his friends in Congress would do the rest. Or when he told Zelensky to just announce an investigation into Hunter Biden on American TV, no investigation necessary. Or when he had a guy who dipped his hand into the reflecting pool indicted for a felony. Or when he subpoenaed New York Times reporters to a grand jury — subpoenas that were withdrawn by Todd Blanche’s DOJ when a judge gave him the choice of withdrawing them or having them quashed.
The reason Pence and Kobach didn’t find those millions of dead Mexicans who voted for Hillary in 2020 is clear enough. Here’s the far-right, Project 2025 Heritage Foundation’s authoritative Voter Fraud Database. Take a look. Explore the data, as the good folks at the Heritage Foundation invite you to.
You will see literally hundreds of cases of voter fraud documented over the last forty years or so — out of maybe a billion votes cast. The incidence of fraud is something like 0.0001%, which looks as bad as it is. There’s no widespread fucking voter fraud. Truth has never been an obstacle to psychopaths.
These lawless sociopaths believe judges Trump appointed are Trump judges and should rule like Aileen Cannon, the unleashed Colombian-born Kraken in her cozy Florida federal court. To their credit, many of the federally judges Trump appointed are not corrupt. I followed one of the 2020 Trump/RNC voter suppression lawsuits in Western Pennsylvania and was very impressed by 43 year-old Federalist Society member, Trump appointee J. Nicholas Ranjan, who wrote one of the most thorough dismantlings of a baselees lawsuit I ever read (tediously detailed highlights here).
When Judge Ranjan granted the motion from every sued county election board in Pennsylvania and ordered Trump/RNC to produce evidence of their claims, Trump/RNC told him they didn’t need evidence to prove their case. Then they produced boxes of screenshots from public opinion shaping entertainment outfits FOX, Breitbart, OANN, Newsmax, Der Stürmer, Völkischer Beobachter [1], etc.
Pugnacious dickhead, Trump-booster and supremely qualified chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan, a wiry college wrestler who could not be pinned, a law school graduate who did not pass the bar exam, an adult witness to sexual predation of college wrestlers who maintained Omerta to protect his boss (allegedly), sent fellow Trump lover Todd “I am, was, his criminal lawyer” Blanche a criminal referral urging him to investigate, indict and prosecute Jack Smith for perjury. The charge is based on a very attenuated legal theory, and, MAGA-style, with no credible evidence of a crime (Smith’s alleged perjury was in not answering a question he was not asked), in clear reprisal for Smith’s unpardonable public crimes against the Leader, a man unfairly subjected to countless witch hunts.
Smith, in Jordan’s learned legal opinion, committed perjury when he lyingly answered a question posed by a MAGA interrogator about phone evidence he’d legally obtained as part of his investigation into the January 6th plot Jordan was a key player in. Recall Jordan’s twitchy tap dance when asked live on FOX if he talked to the president before or during the riot at the Capitol, recall his stuttering evasiveness. Jordan also disobeyed a Congressional subpoena and refused to testify before the January 6th Committee. Senator Josh Hawley, neither as stupid or as uneducated as Jordan, and an actual lawyer, jumped on Jordan’s idiot theory, with the alacrity he showed scooting away from the rioters he’d fist pumped on his way into the Capitol an hour or two earlier, calling Smith a “serial perjurer”, presumably for his answers to questions asked, and not asked, about phone logs obtained showing calls to and from Trump as he attempted to overturn the 2020 election results.
Evidence? The phones, including call records and hundreds of real time texts, of Secret Service agents and others at DHS intimately involved with Trump on January 6, 2021, were wiped clean under the watchful eye of corrupt Department of Homeland Security inspector general Joseph Cuffari. That mother violator, who waited six months (the time after which it would be impossible to retrieve any of this crucial evidence) to inform Congress that there were no texts or phone records from those around Trump as he fomented his insurrection, is still in his job, through multiple scandals and four years of Biden, one of the few IGs who survived Trump’s immediate Project 2025 purge of all agency watchdogs. Because when you have someone good, and loyal, who will bury evidence to help you out, you don’t fire someone like that.
Because when it comes to winning or losing, in the court of public opinion, what the fuck does evidence have to do with it anyway, am I right?
[1] The “fighting paper of the National Socialist movement of Greater Germany“, or “Kampfblatt der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung Großdeutschlands” as it called itself, had its origin as the Münchener Beobachter, or “Munich Observer”, an antisemitic semi-weekly scandal-oriented paper which in 1918 was acquired by the Thule Society with financial backing by Käthe Bierbaumer and, in August 1919, was renamed Völkischer Beobachter (see Völkisch and Völkisch movement).
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