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Related: About this forumTrump Court BLUNDER TRIGGERS 47 Subpoenas...INCLUDING Jack Smith!!! - Legal AF
Michael Popok provides an update in the $10 billion dollar defamation case brought by Trump against the BBC, and how Trump's lawyers bungled it already by not agreeing to halt the discovery process while the BBC's motion to dismiss was considered by the Court, and now are facing 47 subpoenas including about his finances, his cabinet, the DOJ the Jan 6th committee etc. as the BBC tries to prove that Trump Caused the Insurrection! - 06/05/2026.
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Trump Court BLUNDER TRIGGERS 47 Subpoenas...INCLUDING Jack Smith!!! - Legal AF (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
13 hrs ago
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malaise
(298,606 posts)1. K & R
Important
Rhiannon12866
(259,896 posts)2. Thanks!
nuxvomica
(14,317 posts)3. The Colorado Supreme ruled "clear and convincing evidence"
That Trump had engaged in an insurrection. This was determined in litigation in a district court to which Trump was a party. That finding was not refuted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Trump v Anderson. This fully litigated finding of fact should weigh heavily in the BBC case.
RobertDevereaux
(2,046 posts)4. Yes and we Coloradans are damned proud ...
Of having twice declared him an adjudicated insurrectionist.
melm00se
(5,180 posts)5. It was actually the trial court judge
Sarah B. Wallace who originally made that ruling.
The Colorado Supreme Court affirmed it in their ruling.
AllaN01Bear
(29,899 posts)6. ding.. this