Trump learned from Disney’s payment for his bogus defamation lawsuit that the mainstream media could be shaken down for money, and that the threat of a costly lawsuit could be used as a way to dictate media coverage and control the media.
After Disney, Trump responded by launching an ongoing campaign to get late nights. host Jimmy Kimmel was fired from the network.
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Trump also got paid off through an even more bogus defamation lawsuit he filed against 60 Minutes, but that payoff was more about greasing the wheels so CBS could be sold to David Ellison, a Trump ally, who took over the network, got rid of late night host Stephen Colbert, and dumped 60 minutes.
Trump didn’t like the way a BBC documentary covered his attempted coup after the 2020 election, so he filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC.
This time, the president’s goal is to fight back.
The Trump lawsuit against the BBC has reached the discovery phase. Trump’s legal team has made hundreds of document requests. The BBC provided tens of thousands of documents.
The BBC did something that other Trump targets were too afraid to do. The BBC also requested documents from Trump, and what they requested stopped the president dead in his tracks.