Ivanka Busted Hiding from Process Servers in Dad’s Lawsuit

Evelyn Hockstein / REUTERS Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, have been avoiding service in the BBC’s effort to fight President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against it for a documentary on the Jan.

6 Capitol insurrection attempt.

Lawyers for the British broadcaster have said that the Trump family members “without question have personal knowledge” about Trump’s true intentions in delivering his now-infamous speech on Jan.

6, 2021 at the Ellipse.

The BBC has sought testimony from those who were there when the speech was being drafted and in the hours leading up to its delivery.

But Ivanka and Jared have avoided being served, and the BBC attorneys have said they are unreachable.

The BBC was also unsuccessful in a similar attempt to serve Donald Trump Jr. at the Trump Organization’s Trump Tower offices in New York.

“The third parties have personal knowledge and likely have possession, custody, or control of records relevant to multiple elements of Plaintiff’s claims against the BBC, yet the BBC has been unable to serve them with Rule 45 subpoenas because the Third Parties — Plaintiff’s eldest son, eldest daughter, eldest son-in-law — are protected by the United States Secret Service as members of the sitting president’s immediate family,” lawyers for the BBC wrote in a motion to the court on Friday.

The BBC has asked the U.S.

District Court in Miami to allow them to serve Ivanka, Don Jr, and Jared via mail or another third-party way, as they have maintained that it is impossible to serve them.

“Specifically, law enforcement officers prevented the BBC’s process server from effecting service on Mr.

Kushner and Ms.

Trump at their home in Florida, and directed the BBC to coordinate service through the U.S.

Secret Service,” the motion says.