Author: Michael

Politico corrected a story about White House chief of staff Susie Wiles Wednesday while pushing back against the Trump administration’s threats of legal action, accusing the White House of attempting to intimidate the news outlet over its reporting. The correction came after White House counsel Will Scharf sent Politico a letter Monday demanding that it retract or correct three articles about Wiles, publicly apologize to President Donald Trump and Wiles, and remove the disputed reporting from its archives. Scharf gave the outlet 48 hours to comply or face consequences, including a review of its relationship with the White House and…

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President Donald Trump must sit for a deposition in his $10 billion BBC defamation case by Dec. 11, a judge ruled on Thursday. The update from U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett comes a week after the president canceled his planned Oct. 16 deposition date due to a “matter of national importance,” though he was actually just campaigning in Georgia. “He was participating in party politics and prioritized that over sitting for the deposition,” BBC attorney Charles Tobin said in a statement, further noting the broadcaster’s lawyers “still haven’t been able to depose the plaintiff” with just two months of discovery…

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