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Trial date set for Trump's legal case against BBC

The BBC will presumably try and get it chucked out.

Didn’t they already try and get the case struck out ?

It looks as though Trump has been simply deploying his usual tactic of threatening to sue for billions but counting on the defendant to settle out of court for a large sum before it reaches the court. The BBC is looks pretty solid in its. intent to defend Trump’s action. I can envisage Trump dropping the action before Feb 2027.

Wouldn’t it be nifty if Auntie Beeb brought a counter action against Trump, though ?

Trump's currently huffing and puffing with threats to sue Trevor Noah. For making a joke about him and Esptein at the Grammys.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 12, 2026 6:55 pm Didn’t they already try and get the case struck out ?

It looks as though Trump has been simply deploying his usual tactic of threatening to sue for billions but counting on the defendant to settle out of court for a large sum before it reaches the court. The BBC is looks pretty solid in its. intent to defend Trump’s action. I can envisage Trump dropping the action before Feb 2027.

Wouldn’t it be nifty if Auntie Beeb brought a counter action against Trump, though ?

There will be various tests the case has to meet at different stages, I should think. So there will probably more chances.

Youngian wrote: ↑Thu Feb 12, 2026 7:04 pm Trump's currently huffing and puffing with threats to sue Trevor Noah. For making a joke about him and Esptein at the Grammys.

Lots of his supporters seriously see "free speech" as being a reason to vote for him. What can you do about this stuff?

Free for me, not thee.

Hot on the heels of the FIFA Peace Prize, this award goes to
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16pAJa5zW7/

I gather it wants to remove emissions controls on American motor vehicles "to make them cheaper". They'll still be shit and unsaleable outside the US (except to the mentally deficient) but I suppose it'll appeal to the children who never grew out of going "brrrm! brrrm!" in their pedal cars.

I'm trying to remember the name of a film where Dennis Farina asks "does the sun ever shine in this town?" (commenting on the smog) and gets the reply "no, but we have the most beautiful sunsets."

I'm thinking of the bit in Robocop where the hostage taker demands a getaway car:

Something with reclining leather seats, that goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage!

I remember when the right moaned about participation trophies.

Trump not only got a fake “club champion” golf trophy, he got the greatest ever golfer to be clown himself by presenting it.

Trump lashes out at California governor’s green energy deal with UK
President says it is inappropriate for UK to be dealing with Gavin Newsom after Ed Miliband meets governor in London

What happened to states' rights? Oh, they only apply when a Democrat is in the White House. Biden seemed to cope with Republican governors signing deals with the UK government.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... gy-deal-uk

In an intervention that is likely to be clocked by British government officials wary of potential new landmines in the UK’s relationship with the White House,

This belongs in the 'Guardian's turned to shite' thread. 'Clocked' and 'government officials' leaves a lot to the imagination.
Anyway, fuck landmines. We know how Trump views countries and people who make concessions, suckers.

In the general scheme of Trump's "interventions", this is very mild. I think we can safely ignore it. But I think it's actually an improvement for the Guardian to notice some difficulties, instead of the usual stuff about how we should be running a Hugh Grant in Love Actually foreign policy.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Feb 16, 2026 10:39 pm

Trump lashes out at California governor’s green energy deal with UK
President says it is inappropriate for UK to be dealing with Gavin Newsom after Ed Miliband meets governor in London

What happened to states' rights? Oh, they only apply when a Democrat is in the White House. Biden seemed to cope with Republican governors signing deals with the UK government.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... gy-deal-uk

Deals? Liz Truss jollied around friendly Republican states, got her photo taken, and celebrated Memoranda of Understanding as if she had single-handedly won the Champion's League.

Yeah, not particularly large states in some cases either. Indiana. Oklahoma and South Carolina signed them. This helped Truss get elected leader/PM.

I see this Government has signed some with Blue States. I follow politics quite a bit and I hadn't heard a word about this brilliant, buccaneering deals with fast growing economies across the word. Funny that.

Both Newsom and Miliband are betes noires for the new populist right.

Red Ed hasn't been on Trump’s radar as much as Sadiq but he is now for bigging up Newscum's profile abroad.
If Gov Gav does take the White House in 2028 he can only bring some temporary transient trust in the US abroad. The UK isn't out of the woods yet either with the prospect of Farage becoming PM.

I've been reading about this threat for a while now, glad to see the banks are taking it seriously.

I know we've had Democrats saying "trust us, Trump's only got three more years so don't worry" but my response to that is twofold:

One, we can't be sure that another Repug won't get elected in 2028:

Two, you useless fuckers enabled Trump with your shit campaign and candidates.

Roll on the separation from US finances.