Trump claims 'huge victory' as judge allows $10b BBC defamation lawsuit to proceed

A US federal judge on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC to proceed, while denying Trump's unfair trade practices claim against the broadcaster.Florida district court judge Jeffrey T Kuntz ruled that Trump had plausibly alleged reputational damage from the BBC's Panorama documentary, Trump: A Second Chance, which spliced together separate remarks he made nearly 55 minutes apart, the Guardian reported.“Accepting the allegations in the complaint as true, the court finds Trump plausibly pled damages where Trump alleges a defamatory documentary released toward the election caused reputational harm,” Kuntz wrote.The judge said the editing could support an inference that the BBC had acted with actual malice, a legal standard that public figures must establish to win defamation cases.“On its face, the editing may independently establish the plausibility of actual malice,” he wrote, rejecting the BBC's argument that the edits were routine measures to condense a…