Alan Rusbridger writes:

There’s one way the BBC could retrieve some dignity from the smoking rubble of the past week. It should send Donald Trump a four-word reply to his blustering threat to sue the corporation in Florida for $1bn in damages: “See you in court.”

There’s barely a notable news organisation in the US that Trump hasn’t yet sued. ABC News and CBS News have demonstrated the resolve of a jellyfish in stumping up millions to settle lawsuits that were, in the view of most lawyers, perfectly defensible.

That leaves a $10bn claim against the Wall Street Journal for revealing a lewd scribble Trump allegedly penned to Jeffrey Epstein and a $15bn suit against the New York Times for engaging “in a decades long method of lying about your Favorite President (ME!), my family, business, the America First Movement, MAGA, and our Nation as a whole”. He’s even suing the Pulitzer Prize Committee for giving the NYT a gong. [Continue reading…]