'My money is against Trump': Expert predicts president ready to surrender huge legal fight

A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition in his own $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC. Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance is betting he’ll drop the case before that happens.Trump sued the British broadcaster for defamation over its editing of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech. His lawyers say the BBC cut the part where he told the crowd to march “peacefully and patriotically” to the Capitol. The BBC has apologized for leaving that line out of the montage it aired.On Thursday, a federal magistrate judge ordered Trump to be deposed on or before Dec. 11 and told his team to comply with discovery. If they don’t, they could face sanctions, which can include dismissal of the case.“So which will it be? A pre-Christmas dismissal or a deposition?” Vance, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, wrote in her Civil Discourse newsletter....