Chris

American media orgs do tend to just throw an out-of-court wad of cash at him to make him go away. He perhaps didn’t realise that the BBC’s charter forbids it from doing so. It is compelled to go to court. Trump is now in a bind, because if he drops the case the BBC is free to repeat the allegation. If he doesn’t drop it but drags his heels until the judge is forced to end it for him, the BBC can apply to the judge for costs. He may have been hoping simply to run down the deposition time limit but now the judge has made a specific order with a deadline which he can presumably be penalised for if he misses it.