Trump seeks block BBC family subpoenas

The US President Donald Trump urged a Miami federal judge to reject the BBC's bid to subpoena three members of his immediate family in his $10 billion defamation case over a Panorama documentary, calling the move politically driven leverage. His lawyers described the subpoenas for Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump Jr. as part of a sweeping discovery campaign and a potential fishing expedition beyond the case’s narrow scope. The matter was reassigned to US District Judge Jeffrey Kuntz, who had inherited the case from a previous judge and has not yet ruled. BBC process servers allegedly attempted to deliver subpoenas at the family members’ residences and at Trump Tower, but were reportedly blocked by security authorities. The BBC asked to serve subpoenas by certified mail, a method Trump’s team opposed as improper and overbroad. The defamation claim centers on alleged deceptive editing of Trump’s January 6, 2021 remarks and the BBC’s Panorama broadcast aired ahead of the 2024 election, which Trump contends was designed to influence the outcome.