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Trump Tries to Ban Jack Smith Testimony as BBC Lawsuit Implodes

President Trump doesn’t want former special counsel Jack Smith to testify in a deposition as part of his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Company. The BBC has subpoenaed Smith to defend itself from Trump’s accusations that the network defamed him with deceptive editing in a 2024 documentary about the January 6, 2021 Capitol…

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