I'm hoping the beeb wins and gets everything they want. It will signal to other entities he's threatened with lawsuits that he's a stuffed shirt (and how!) that has more dirt to hide than they do.

He thought the BBC would roll over like when he sued ABC and they just paid him 15 million and apologized to him. Or when he sued CBS and they paid him 16 million. The issue is that BBC is funded from taxpayer money and I don't think the British taxpayers would be very happy with them paying Trump.

It's not a mistake.

He's a bully. He thinks he can get away with it, so he does it...because he usually gets away with it.

Additionally, he has lawyers.

Lawyers he refuses to listen to because he thinks he's "smarter than them".

He doesn't file lawsuits to actually win them, he files them as intimidation. He expects the other side to cave, and to settle. I tried to search for lawsuit Trump actually won on their merits, without a negotiated settlement, and could only find one that was a default judgement (so the other side didn't even show up).

he has lawyers

Despite what he may claim, not the biggest, brightest lawyers. We're talking Rudy Giuliani, Pam Bondi, Kenneth Chesebro, and Alan Dershowitz.

I'm sure you have seen this, but he hires based on loyalty, not competence.

He's banking on the news not making it over here since he pretty much controls all of the media now.

I recognize President Pedophile is incredibly stupid, in addition to being a horrible human being. But I'm struggling to see how he could have made this mistake. Additionally, he has lawyers.

He's burned through many lawyers and there are few reputable or intelligent lawyers left who might be willing to light their careers on fire. Sure, he might find one willing to trade their career for whatever benefits they might get (or maybe they just have a hard on for fascism, which often means they are fucking stupid too), but most of his lawyers have, eventually, been left holding a flaming bag of shit while Trump transparently lies and pretends he has never heard of them or has heard they aren't very good.

It's happening to pretty much the entire fucking justice department. It used to be a very sought after career. Now they are giving fresh grads signing bonuses and then shuffling them into the meat grinder and sacrificing their reputation to further the administration's nakedly corrupt agenda. "Hey, new kid, I need you to take this case." Turns out the case is about some poor immigrant that been detained for months and then deported despite having court orders protecting him from deportation... that were clumsily bypassed with unsigned orders or some other bullshit. New kid sits in front of a frustrated judge yelling at him and the kid can only say "I don't know what happened" and go home and cry into his pillow.

He'll wiggle and worm for all he's worth but then drop the suit before they can climax.

I hope they counter sue for their defense costs and as much more as they possibly can. I wonder if the BBC counter suing him on the grounds that this lawsuit from him was filed based on a lie (his imaginary $10b loss), he failed to comply with the court order to disclose finances to prove the loss he himself had claimed, and then when the judge refused to stay that order he ended up dropping his case entirely would be a way to try to force the same financial record disclosure?

I'd imagine not under normal circumstances, the burden of proof being on the one suing... but with that chain of events and every historic estimate of Trump's net worth having been far less than that claimed $10B loss... it seems like it might be possible.

How would you know, those files have been redacted.

Both kinds

They will seal them all. Says in the court filings that even if released to BBC many can't be made public.

Because rich people are in charge of the United States so whatever they want goes.

Yeah he may have gotten away with real-estate fraud, tax fraud, election fraud, rape, stealing classified documents, literally coup attempts against congress, but he won't get away with tax fraud.

I sincerely hope he will face no consequences in 2.5 years. On accounts of painfully and painstakingly slowly dying 2.49 years prior.

It wont affect him ever.