President Trump has confirmed that he will sue the BBC over the edits made to his speech at the Capitol on 6 January 2021
The US president said he’ll sue the BBC for as much as $5 billion over the edits it made to his speech as part of a documentary broadcast during last year’s election cycle.
The documentary in question, Panorama’s “Donald Trump: A Second Chance?,” was aired a week before the 2024 presidential election.
InfoWars reports: On Thursday, the BBC issued a personal apology to Trump for the edits.
“We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech, rather than excerpts from different points in the speech, and that this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action,” the BBC wrote in its Corrections and Clarifications section.
“The BBC would like to apologise to President Trump for that error of judgement. This programme was not scheduled to be re-broadcast and will not be broadcast again in this form on any BBC platforms.”
The BBC stopped short of acknowledging direct culpability and said there is no basis for a defamation suit.
President Trump, however, disagrees. On Friday, aboard Air Force One, he told reporters that he has no intention of retracting his threatened legal case against Britain’s national broadcaster.
“We’ll sue them for anywhere between a billion and $5 billion, probably sometime next week,” the President said.
“I think I have to do it, I mean, they’ve even admitted that they cheated. Not that they couldn’t have not done that. They cheated. They changed the words coming out of my mouth.”
President Trump said he would speak to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer about the matter this weekend, adding that Starmer had contacted him to express his embarrassment.
“The people of the UK are very angry about what happened as you can imagine, because it shows the BBC is fake news,” he stated.
The documentary in question, Panorama’s “Donald Trump: A Second Chance?,” aired a week before the 2024 election, at the end of October. Parts of President Trump’s speech at the Capitol on 6 January 2021 were spliced together to make it appear he had directly incited his supporters to “storm the Capitol.”
“That’s a pretty sad event. They actually changed my January 6 speech, which was a beautiful speech, which was a very calming speech, and they made it sound radical,” Trump told Fox News last weekend.
In an unprecedented move, the BBC’s director-general—the most powerful executive—and the head of news were both forced to resign as a result of the scandal.
The BBC’s chairman also sent a letter to the UK’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee apologizing for an “error of judgment” regarding the editing of the speech.
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