Judge gives Trump deadline to sit for deposition in BBC defamation suit

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A US federal judge ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition by December 11 in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC. The BBC’s lawyers said Trump had delayed the deposition despite an agreed date, with the discovery period nearing its end.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered US President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition in his US$10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC by December 11. The order from US Magistrate Judge Enjolique Lett came as lawyers for the British broadcaster complained that Trump had delayed his appearance. Charles Tobin, the lawyer for the BBC, said that with two months left in the discovery period, “we still haven’t been able to depose the plaintiff”. He noted there was an agreed-upon date of October...