“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” Shakespeare, Hamlet.
From an ill-judged war to a sulphurous green Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC after a $14 million renovation, Trump does not have his troubles to seek. The one minnow he did not expect to bite back after they admitted their mistake was the BBC. But as anyone in the business knows, suing the BBC is usually a very bad idea indeed as their sharp-clawed legal hounds get to work.
In this instance having said sorry for the misleading edit of a fiery speech he made shortly before the January 6 assault, making it appear that he’d made a direct call for violence. And ditching the director-general Tim Davie and the News chief Deborah Turness, the BBC have now come out guns blazing.
The BBC is arguing that to win his $10 billion defamation case, Trump has to prove he did NOT foment or incite the riot. They have requested Trump’s diary and phone logs, issued a wave of subpoenas to dozens of members of Trump’s inner circle, raising fresh questions about Trump’s speech before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
To win the case, Trump “must prove that he did not foment or incite the January 6 Capitol riot,” the BBC said. “Plaintiff has placed that question directly at issue in bringing this libel lawsuit – he cannot now prevent defendants from seeking records that would shed light on his true knowledge, intent, and state of mind in delivering his speech.”
The BBC has formally subpoenaed the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust in a bid to ascertain the financial impact of the alleged defamation. That trust, managed by the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, holds Trump’s business interests and assets.
What is even more amusing is the astrology. The BBC, 14 November 2022 6pm London, a determined Scorpio entity, has its bullishly stubborn and contrary Mars in Aquarius exactly opposition Trump’s 12th house Pluto for a fight to the death. The BBC’s Saturn is conjunct DT’s 2nd house financial Jupiter as it attempts to weasel out financial info that he will presumably wish to hide. The BBC’s slippery Neptune sits exactly on DT/s Mars/Pluto midpoint in his 8th; with the BBC Pluto conjunct his Mercury. A worthy opponent.
The BBC/DT relationship chart is also wonderfully apt in the circumstances with a composite T Square of Uranus opposition Jupiter square Pluto – Jupiter Pluto is a tussle for the upper hand. Uranus Pluto is capable of creating turmoil. Jupiter Uranus is associated with fortune hunters or a tendency to magnify a situation – and can go wrong.
The focal point Pluto hints at a power struggle and it trines Mars, doubling up its determination not to be put down.
Plus there is a composite Saturn, Sun Mercury, Neptune in Virgo which will be rattled by tr Uranus square from this July onwards, when tensions erupt for two or three years ahead.
All a sideshow but could be fun. It is supposed to come to trial in Florida in February 2027 though there are arguments about jurisdiction for a programme that never aired in the USA. If it does proceed tr Saturn will be in hard aspect to the Uranus Jupiter Pluto T square from mid 2027 onwards, dampening spirits considerably. It may well fizzle out, more’s the pity.