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Chapter 1: What is the basis of Trump's lawsuit against the BBC?
President Trump files a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against the BBC while the White House rebuffs another media-driven controversy.
This was unfortunately another attempt at fake news by a reporter who was acting disingenuously and really did take the chief's words out of context.
I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howell. It's Wednesday, December 17th. This is Morning Wire.
Chapter 2: How did the BBC respond to Trump's defamation claims?
Newly declassified documents raise questions about the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
This is going to go down as a very dark chapter in American history. And President Trump may have recourse now to be able to seek damages at some point in time.
And the University of Michigan launches an investigation after the arrest of its fired coach. We have the latest on the scandal that's rocked the sports world.
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President Trump has launched a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against the BBC as he continues to clash with media outlets at home and abroad.
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here to get us up to speed on the latest from the White House. Hey, Cabot, so a lot going on in D.C. Let's start with this BBC lawsuit, a massive lawsuit. What's going on here?
So this week, President Trump filed a 46-page lawsuit in a federal court in Miami accusing the BBC of not only defamation, but also a violation of Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. and he is looking for $10 billion from the broadcaster. Now, Trump has long clashed with the BBC, but this particular suit stems from a documentary that they put out ahead of the 2024 election.
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Chapter 3: What new evidence has emerged regarding the Mar-a-Lago raid?
And we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.
Now that deceptive editing sparked an internal review at the BBC, which concluded that there had been, quote, a string of incidents that demonstrates serious bias in the corporation's reporting. Again, that's in their own words. Trump's lawsuit includes that quote from the outlet and says they, quote, intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively doctored his speech
in a brazen attempt to interfere in the 2024 presidential election. Now, the network has already issued an apology to Trump, but the outlet says that they are going to fight back against this lawsuit. In a statement this week, they conceded that they, quote, regret the manner in which the video was edited, but strongly disagree that there is a basis for a defamation claim.
Now, the Trump administration had another, you know, hit piece against them related to some of the top advisors of Trump. Tell us about that situation. Yeah, a wild story from Vanity Fair that has just taken Washington by storm this week.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of the FBI's internal communications on the raid?
So for the last year, Vanity Fair reporter Chris Whipple has been sort of shadowing some of the president's inner circle, mainly Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Part one of that story was published Tuesday, and it included a number of remarkably candid on-the-record quotes from Wiles talking about some of the inner circle and even cabinet members at the White House. For example, of J.D.
Vance, Wiles said, quote, he has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade. She also implied that his shifting ideology over the last decade was driven by political motives. Of Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the Epstein files, Wiles said, quote, Pam Bondi completely whiffed She said that the witness list or the client list was on her desk.
Chapter 5: What led to the investigation of the University of Michigan's athletics department?
There is no client list, and it sure as hell wasn't on her desk. And perhaps most notably, Wiles said President Trump has a, quote, alcoholic's personality. He operates with the view that there is nothing he cannot do. All right, so some head-turning comments to say the least. What has been the response from the White House so far?
Well, Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olihan spoke to a number of folks in the administration, and they weren't exactly thrilled by the quotes that Wiles gave, but they were very quick to defend her as a loyal supporter of the president. Virtually every cabinet member and spokesperson then issued statements after that story was published defending Wiles. Here's VP J.D.
Vance on Tuesday afternoon.
Chapter 6: What are the details surrounding the firing of Michigan's head coach?
I've never seen her be disloyal to the president of the United States, and that makes her the best White House chief of staff that I think the president could ask for.
And then hours after those comments, President Trump himself weighed in, telling the New York Post that he actually agreed with her assessment about his alcoholic personality, saying, quote, I've said that many times about myself. I'm fortunate I'm not a drinker. He then went on to say that he has a, quote, possessive and addictive type personality.
Chapter 7: How is the Michigan football team coping with the recent events?
So the White House not rattled at all, maybe enjoying this a little bit. Yeah. And then Wiles, again, to close out, said that she thought the interview was a, quote, disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest president, White House staff and cabinet in history. All right. So more drama. And again, maybe they're enjoying this a little bit.
Chapter 8: What are the next steps for the investigation into Michigan's athletic department?
Kevin, thanks so much for reporting. Absolutely.
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The FBI did not believe it had the proper justification to raid Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, but the Biden Justice Department pushed for it anyway.
Here to talk about the new revelations around the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago, as well as some updates from the Brown University shooting case, is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce. So, Tim, first off, the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, we have some new information about what was going on behind the scenes. What did we find out?
Right. Credit for this scoop goes to Brooke Singman at Fox News. She obtained messages exchanged between the FBI and Biden DOJ that seemed to give more credibility to Trump's claims of political targeting. In the months before the raid, an assistant special agent in charge at the FBI had received some tip that Trump had boxes of classified information at Mar-a-Lago.
But the Bureau's Washington field office, quote, has some concerns that the information is single-sourced, has not been corroborated, and may be dated. The DOJ, on the other hand, asserted that the evidence met the probable cause standard for search warrants.
But weeks later, another message from an FBI agent said, we haven't generated any new facts, but keep being given draft after draft after draft. Absent a witness coming forward with recent information about classified on-site, at what point is it fair to table this?
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