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Trump wants $10 billion from BBC but says asking for his finances is ‘disproportionate’

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Trump wants $10 billion from BBC but says asking for his finances is ‘disproportionate’

In the latest twist in Trump’s defamation case against the BBC, the president’s legal team has filed an emergency motion to block the BBC from accessing his financial records, arguing the subpoena is a “disproportionate” and a “shockingly broad” fishing expedition. According to the filing, made in the Southern District of Florida on August 5, 2026, the BBC’s subpoena for tax returns, asset histories, and business records from the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, the legal entity that holds the president’s business assets across approximately 400 affiliated entities, should be quashed. Or, at minimum, impose strict limits on what the BBC…

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Petulant Farage claims BBC endangering him by asking about undeclared £5m

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Petulant Farage claims BBC endangering him by asking about undeclared £5m

A petulant and clearly rattled Nigel Farage has accused the BBC of putting his life in danger – by asking about the undeclared £5m ‘gift’ bunged to him by a crypto-billionaire. Nunya – not Farage has claimed the money was to pay for his ‘lifetime security’ and that he didn’t have to declare it because it “wasn’t political“. But he refused to say whether he had spent any of it on security – though he has previously admitted he’s spent none on that. He poutingly insisted that it’s none of the public’s business what an elected MP does with money that…

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