Video taking off 30x its usual first day

Trump's no-show in his own BBC lawsuit leads The Mirror's rundown

Mikey Smith walks through a missed October 16 deposition and the BBC's request for a court order, with a canceled execution livestream and Susie Wiles' future also on the list.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 259,278 views a day, 30 times a normal first day on this channel (8,693).

Trump REFUSES to face BBC lawyers in $10 BILLION lawsuit

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0:44Trump drops the plan to livestream Nidal Hasan's firing-squad execution after broad backlash.
2:25Smith reads through Trump's social media post announcing the livestream would not go ahead.
3:47The BBC lawsuit: Trump did not appear for his scheduled October 16 deposition.
5:24The BBC's filings ask the court for an order compelling Trump to give evidence.
7:05Reports of friction between Trump and his chief of staff, Susie Wiles.
8:44Names floated as possible replacements for Wiles, including Bill Pulte and Stephen Miller.

A regular video on The Mirror's channel usually gathers a few thousand views across its whole first day. Mikey Smith's latest Trump rundown passed 170,000 in about 12 hours, and its comment section had already drawn more than four times the usual first-day count.

The headline story is an unusual one for a plaintiff. Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion, a case that centers on Panorama's edit of his January 6, 2021 speech. In the clip Smith plays, Trump puts his side simply: "I'm suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth." According to Smith, Trump then failed to appear for a scheduled deposition on October 16, so the broadcaster's lawyers never got to question him.

Smith, the paper's deputy political editor, goes through the BBC's response: filings that ask the court to order Trump to give evidence. That is a request, not a ruling. Nothing in the segment settles the lawsuit itself.

The title leads with the BBC, but the video opens with a different story. Smith first covers Trump's reversal on livestreaming the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the convicted Fort Hood gunman. He plays Pete Hegseth's earlier promise that the execution would be public, then the backlash that followed. The court material begins nearly four minutes in.

Smith ends with reports of friction between Trump and his chief of staff, Susie Wiles. He lists the names floated as possible successors, among them Bill Pulte and Stephen Miller. The video plays more like a week of Washington news than a single court report, and so far the BBC case is the part that drew the crowd.

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