Trump vows to sue BBC in hours over doctored Panorama speech | World | News

Donald Trump has vowed to sue the BBC, just hours after accusing it of “putting words in my mouth” over the ongoing doctored Panorama speech scandal. The US president said the libel suit would be dismissed “probably this afternoon or tomorrow evening”.

He said: “I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth… I think they used AI or something. They really put terrible words in my mouth.” The BBC changed the Republican’s speech in an episode of Panorama so that the Republican could come after them for “$1 billion to $5 billion”.

The broadcaster edited Mr. Trump’s speech on January 6, 2021, the day of the attack on the US Capitol. He acknowledged that “excerpts from different parts of the speech were shown.”

Panorama reported him saying: “We’ll march to the Capitol, I’ll be there with you, and we’ll fight.”

What he actually said was, “We will march to the Capitol and support our brave senators, congressmen, and women.”

The BBC responded: “This program has been reviewed following criticism about how the President acted. Donald Trump‘s speech dated January 6, 2021 was edited. “During this sequence, we showed quotes from different parts of the conversation.”

“We acknowledge that our editing inadvertently created the impression that we were showing a single portion of the speech continuously, rather than excerpts from different points of the speech, creating the false impression that President Trump was directly calling for violent action.

“The BBC wishes to apologize to President Trump for this error of judgment.”

The scandal led to the resignation of BBC director Tim Davie and BBC News chief executive Deborah Turness.