Donald Trump sues BBC for at least $5bn over edit of January 6 speech | Donald Trump
Donald Trump has sued the BBC, seeking at least $5 billion in damages over its editing of a speech he gave to his supporters in Washington before storming the US Capitol in 2021.
Trump had mocked the lawsuit earlier Monday, telling reporters in the Oval Office: “You’ll see pretty soon that I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth. Literally, they put words in my mouth. They made me say things I never said.”
Trump’s case centers on an edition of the broadcaster’s flagship Panorama news program that aired a week before the 2024 US election.
The episode splices together clips of Trump’s speech, suggesting he tells the crowd: “We’re going to march to the Capitol, and I’ll be there with you, and we’re going to fight. We’re going to fight like hell.”
However, these words were taken from parts of his speech that took place almost an hour apart.
The BBC acknowledged the edit was an “error of judgement” and apologized to Trump, but said its claim had no legal basis. The BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, and the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness, resigned over the incident.
Trump has denied responsibility for the incident, which was aimed at preventing Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in the 2020 US presidential election.
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