Judge orders Trump to sit for deposition in $10 billion BBC lawsuit after months of delay

A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition by Dec. 11 in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC.Axios reported that Trump will likely have to answer questions under oath in a case he started after U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett issued the order Thursday at a hearing in Miami, ending a weeks-long standoff over when the president would sit for questioning.Trump sued the British broadcaster in December 2025 over a “Panorama” documentary that spliced together two parts of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech, delivered about 54 minutes apart. The edit made it look as though he directly urged violence. The BBC apologized and pulled the program, and its director-general and top news executive resigned. But the network denies it defamed Trump.Getting Trump in front of the BBC’s lawyers has been a struggle. The BBC first asked for deposition dates in July. Trump’s team offered...