Trump threatens $1-5 billion lawsuit against BBC over Jan. 6 speech edit
Trump says he will sue BBC next week
Former Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller is demanding liability during his potential legal battle with the BBC over changes made to President Donald Trump’s January 6 speech on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’
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President Donald Trump said Friday that he plans to sue the BBC over the editing of his Jan. 6, 2021 speech, which was cut by investigative documentary series Panorama, the news outlet reported.
“We’ll probably be suing them for $1 billion to $5 billion next week,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday evening.
According to BBC News, he added that he planned to discuss the issue with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the weekend.
“The BBC’s lawyers have written to President Trump’s legal team in response to a letter received on Sunday,” a BBC spokesman said. in question Thursday. “BBC president Samir Shah also sent a personal letter to the White House, making it clear to President Trump that he and the company were sorry for the editing of the president’s speech on the program on January 6, 2021.”
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President Donald Trump said Friday that he plans to sue the BBC over the editing of his Jan. 6, 2021 speech, which was cut by investigative documentary series Panorama, the news outlet reported. (Kin Cheung/AP Photo)
The spokesman said there were “no plans” to rebroadcast the documentary at the center of the controversy on any of the BBC’s platforms.
“Whilst the BBC sincerely regrets the way the video clip has been edited, we strongly disagree that there is a basis for a claim of defamation,” the spokesman added.
The British news organization faced criticism for its BBC Panorama documentary about Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech before the attack on the US Capitol. Critics believe the documentary is misleading because it stitches together Trump’s calls for his supporters to protest “peacefully” and statements the president made almost an hour apart to make it look like one long statement.
The BBC said on Friday that the edit “created the false impression that President Trump was directly calling for violent action” but that this was unintentional.
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President Donald Trump speaks to supporters outside the White House on January 6, 2021. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Trump had previously threatened to sue if “false, defamatory, derogatory and inflammatory statements” were not immediately retracted.
The controversy led to the resignations of BBC News chief executive Deborah Turness and BBC director general Tim Davie.
“I resigned at the weekend because the onus remained on me. But I want to make one thing very clear, BBC News is not institutionally biased,” Turness told reporters outside BBC headquarters in London on Monday.
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President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press aboard Air Force One en route from Washington, D.C. to West Palm Beach International Airport on November 14, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)
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“Our journalists are not corrupt. Our journalists are hard-working people who strive for impartiality and I will stand behind their journalism,” he added. “There is no institutional bias. Mistakes are made.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House and BBC for comment.
