President Trump lodged an eye-watering $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC on Monday, accusing the British broadcaster of defaming him through a deceptive edit of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech at the White House Ellipse.
The lawsuit took aim at a 2024 documentary by the BBC, which spliced different sections of Trump’s comments before his supporters ransacked the Capitol to make it appear as though he explicitly encouraged the riot.
“I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth, literally,” Trump grumbled to reporters earlier in the day, Monday. “They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with January 6th that I didn’t say.”
Trump’s legal team filed the 33-page lawsuit in a federal court in Miami, blasting the BBC’s documentary titled “Trump: A Second Chance” as “a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence” the 2024 election.
The colossal lawsuit is seeking $5 billion for defamation specifically and another $5 billion for violating Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
Last month, the BBC issued a formal apology, but insisted that it did not defame Trump. The BBC’s director-general and news CEO both stepped down last month. BBC chairman Samir Shah described the edit as an “error of judgment.”
The controversial documentary featured an edited clip of Trump telling rally-goers: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you and we fight. We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country anymore.” --->READ MORE HERE
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Two top BBC leaders resigned Sunday following criticism over the way a documentary edited a speech by President Trump on Jan. 6 and other matters raised in a leaked internal memo.Why it matters: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and others accused the public service broadcaster of dishonesty following the leak to the Telegraph of the memo that raised concerns about impartiality and called the edited Trump clip in the BBC "Panorama" documentary "misleading."
- Trump and Leavitt both welcomed Sunday's resignations of BBC director-general Tim Davie and news chief Deborah Turness after it emerged former BBC adviser Michael Prescott accused the outlet in the memo of "serious and systemic" bias over a range of issues, including "Panorama" splicing together sections of Trump's speech.
Driving the news: Davie said in his resignation letter that the decision to step down from the British Broadcasting Corporation's top role after five years was "entirely" his and that "overall, the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as director-general I have to take ultimate responsibility."
- Turness said in her resignation letter that the "ongoing controversy" around the Trump documentary "has reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC."
- The former NBC News International president added that as the CEO of BBC News and current affairs, "the buck stops with me."
Between the lines: Trump threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion, the broadcaster confirmed Monday.
The BBC apologized Monday for an "error in judgment," acknowledging the edit created a misleading impression. A lawyer for Trump, Alejandro Brito, sent a letter to the BBC demanding a full retraction of the documentary, an apology and payments to "appropriately compensate President Trump for the harm caused," according to The New York Times. The letter said the broadcaster had until Friday at 5pm ET to retract the documentary or else face a lawsuit, according to the BBC.
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