Cyberzenhub.com – In a sharp escalation of one of the most high-profile media litigation battles of recent years, President Donald Trump’s attorneys filed a motion asking a federal judge in Miami to deny the British Broadcasting Corporation’s request for judicial assistance in compelling testimony and documents from three members of the president’s immediate family. The dispute centers on the BBC’s efforts to subpoena Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and their brother-in-law Donald Trump Jr. as part of the president’s $10 billion defamation suit against the broadcaster.

The filing, submitted Friday, characterizes the BBC’s discovery efforts as an attempt to extract “politically-driven leverage” over the sitting president by dragging his closest relatives into depositions and document production. Trump’s lawyers argued that the broadcaster’s motion cannot be viewed in isolation from what they describe as a broader, politically motivated campaign to shape the narrative surrounding the case.…