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Monday, July 27, 2026

President Donald Trump could be headed for a legal quagmire " including an uncomfortable deposition " unless he pulls the plug on his $10 billion BBC defamation lawsuit. Last Tuesday, Federal Magistrate Judge Enjoliqu Lett handed Trump a devastating ruling: he must disclose his financial information as part of discovery in the case, which led former US Attorney Joyce Vance to suggest the president is now in a corner. As she wrote on her Substack platform, Trump's lawyers did all they could "to avoid this moment" by deploying a novel argument.

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"The lawyer told Judge Lett that Trump is only going to claim damage to his reputation and not to his businesses. But she {Lett] admonished him she does not have the ability to excise Trump's initial damages demand from the complaint"Trump does not appear to have filed a motion to do so," Vance wrote.

The consequences are severe: investigators can probe his financial records, business operations, and personal wealth " the very information Trump has fought desperately to conceal for decades

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The Honorable Federal Magistrate Judge Enjoliqu Lett:

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