That venerable news organisation, the BBC,
'is now being sued by Donald Trump',
for something he said where they reported
his words slightly differently to how he said them.
It is old news for Trump to find somebody new
to throw lawyers at in the pursuit of wealth.
He has done that for longer, and more often,
than statisticians have been prepared to count.
Trump has always been a 'throw the stone then hide the hand'
sort of politician. What the BBC is being sued for is editing
'the stone' and 'the hand' in his words to make them appear
as if they were part of one continuous well thought out movement.
The law is not on Trump's side, but that is something
which he has often found advantage in, making the publicity
on the world stage to be worth more to him than the court's time.
The BBC is a media minnow compared with the American tech giants
who are courtesans in Trump's court, Amazon, YouTube, Instagram,
X, Google, Microsoft and Apple. The BBC will outlast being noticed
by Trump and his army of lawyers. The case is weak. Where American
television networks have paid Trump in lawsuits when sued in America,
the sums has been a payment to ensure their latest corporate mergers
are passed by the government, there is no such agenda with the BBC.
In the meanwhile watch the Whitehouse, to see an executive
where the overreach stretches towards infinity, and then beyond....
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