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David Willis, so what can the Europeans do in response to Mr. Trump's threatened takeover of Greenland? Our Europe editor is Katja Adler.
Well, I think it suggests that he believes he has to sue Anker in order to protect his reputation, and that he is determined to treat the BBC no differently than the American media, despite the fact that it is a foreign broadcaster. He says he believes that he has an obligation, in his words, to sue, because the Panorama program had butchered, I use his words again there, his speech, leaving the BBC alone.
Ja hän oli, mielestäni, onnistunut. Ja heidän kirjassaan BBCin jälkeen, Mr. Trumpin järjestö kertoi, että Panorama-programmi on saanut presidentin yllättävän finanssaalisen ja reputatiivisen haasteen.
and asserted that his client's intention to sue the corporation for no less than a billion dollars was real if he didn't receive a retraction, an apology and compensation by this Friday. Now the BBC has said that it will reply to this in due course, but this interview is a further reminder of the fact that the clock is ticking in that regard. So how possible is it for him to launch a lawsuit against the BBC from the United States?
Well, the letter from Mr. Trump's lawyer made mention of his intention to sue the BBC in Florida, in the courts there. And because the Panorama program was broadcast on the 28th of October last year, Mr. Trump and his team have missed the one-year deadline for suing in the British courts. But in Florida, the statute of limitation is two years.
Although one key thing that his lawyers would have to prove if the case came to court was that the documentary had been available to watch here in the United States. And they would also have to show that the president suffered significant financial harm as a result of the Panorama broadcast. And of course in order to get the sort of payout information,
that Mr. Trump's legal team is seeking, they would have to prove that he suffered a billion dollars in losses. That said, there have been some very large defamation awards here, the highest to date being the 1.4 billion dollars that the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay to the families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, which
He, Mr. Jones, had claimed was a hoax. And Mr. Trump, of course, has a reputation for making legal claims for eye-watering amounts of money, including the 10 and 20 billion dollars he sought from CBS News over the editing of an interview with Kamala Harris, only to settle out of court for significantly less. In that particular case, anchor CBS settled with him for 16 million dollars.
Those with criminal records will be held in tented facilities separate from the Guantanamo Bay Military Prison, which acquired a reputation amongst human rights groups for conditions that were deemed degrading and inhumane. Fifteen suspects are still being held at the prison in connection with terrorist-related offences.
Those with criminal records will be held in tented facilities separate from the Guantanamo Bay Military Prison, which acquired a reputation amongst human rights groups for conditions that were deemed degrading and inhumane. Fifteen suspects are still being held at the prison in connection with terrorist-related offences.
I think the strength of support, Alex, will depend really on the impact that these tariffs have on the United States economy. And economists are predicting that they could drive up prices here and thereby fuel inflation. And if that happens, then support could evaporate very quickly indeed. President Trump has warned that there might be, as you mentioned, some temporary economic pain.
I think the strength of support, Alex, will depend really on the impact that these tariffs have on the United States economy. And economists are predicting that they could drive up prices here and thereby fuel inflation. And if that happens, then support could evaporate very quickly indeed. President Trump has warned that there might be, as you mentioned, some temporary economic pain.
I think the strength of support, Alex, will depend really on the impact that these tariffs have on the United States economy. And economists are predicting that they could drive up prices here and thereby fuel inflation. And if that happens, then support could evaporate very quickly indeed. President Trump has warned that there might be, as you mentioned, some temporary economic pain.
But he believes that the American people will deal with it. And that it will be worth the price in the long run, as it were. But today, as news of the impending trade war was reverberating around the world, Mr. Trump took to his truth social social media platform to hail the dawn of what he called a golden age of America.
But he believes that the American people will deal with it. And that it will be worth the price in the long run, as it were. But today, as news of the impending trade war was reverberating around the world, Mr. Trump took to his truth social social media platform to hail the dawn of what he called a golden age of America.
But he believes that the American people will deal with it. And that it will be worth the price in the long run, as it were. But today, as news of the impending trade war was reverberating around the world, Mr. Trump took to his truth social social media platform to hail the dawn of what he called a golden age of America.
And he believes these tariffs will keep jobs in this country, will ease the trade deficits and will boost revenue, potentially bringing in, he said before, hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. Treasury, enough to fund his promised tax cuts for the American people.
And he believes these tariffs will keep jobs in this country, will ease the trade deficits and will boost revenue, potentially bringing in, he said before, hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. Treasury, enough to fund his promised tax cuts for the American people.
And he believes these tariffs will keep jobs in this country, will ease the trade deficits and will boost revenue, potentially bringing in, he said before, hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. Treasury, enough to fund his promised tax cuts for the American people.
And he maintained as well today, as he has before, that there is nothing that the United States' neighbours produce that the US itself couldn't make. That, Alex, despite the fact that around 60% of America's oil comes from Canada and some of it from Mexico as well.