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- Federal judge ordered President Donald Trump’s lawyers to justify missing the filing deadline in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC.
- Trump claims the BBC defamed him with edited January 6 speech clips and violated a law prohibiting deceptive and unfair trade practices.
- The BBC apologized, will contest the suit as meritless, and noted it earns revenue of 5.9 billion pounds ($7.9 billion) from a licence fee.
