BBC Screws Up Big Time - Trump Sues

The BBC Screwed Up Big Time in a Political Misrepresentation of a Key Quote Trump Made About the Attack on the Capitol. Trump sues for $1Billion.

President Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for $1billion.

In a letter to the corporation Trump’s legal team demands the BBC “immediately retract” a Panorama program which edited a speech he made calling it “false and defamatory”.

It comes as BBC chair Samir Shah apologized for an “error of judgement” over the edit, and said the BBC was considering how to respond to Trump.

BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of BBC news Deborah Turness resigned on Sunday night, after a leaked memo criticized a 2024 Panorama program about the US president.

The third-party production company that made the film spliced together three quotes from two sections of the 2021 speech, delivered almost an hour apart, into what appeared to be one quote in which Trump urged supporters to march with him and “fight like hell.” Among the parts cut out was a section where Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.

A lawsuit in England is unlikely because the one-year deadline to bring one expired two weeks ago, experts said. If successful in overcoming that barrier, libel awards in the High Court rarely exceed 100,000 pounds ($132,000), experts said.

Trump could still bring a defamation claim in several U.S. states, and his lawyer cited Florida law in a letter to the BBC.

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