On Monday, a judge presiding over Trump’s $10 billion suit ordered that Trump begin surrendering the financial records for his business empire as part of the discovery process. As Kuo explains , “The order is a direct consequence of a choice Trump made when he filed the suit. That’s a self-own of no small consequence because it opened the door to the disclosure of financial records that his lawyers are now scrambling to avoid.” Having pleaded billions in business damages, Trump could not then argue the BBC had no right to examine the businesses themselves. After all, if that damage had occurred as alleged, it would show up in his financial records.