Donald Trump sues BBC for at least $5bn over edit of January 6 speech | Donald Trump
Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the BBC for editing a speech he gave to his supporters in Washington before they stormed the US Capitol in 2021, demanding at least $5 billion in damages.
Trump addressed the lawsuit earlier Monday, telling reporters in the Oval Office: “It won’t be long before you see me suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth. Literally, they put words in my mouth. They made me say things that I’ve never said in public.”
Trump’s trial centers on an edition of the flagship news show Panorama, which aired a week before the 2024 US election.
The episode stitched together clips from Trump’s speech, suggesting he told the crowd: “We’re going to march down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you, and we’re fighting. We’re fighting like hell.”
However, the words were taken from sections of his speech spaced nearly an hour apart.
The BBC acknowledged the edit was an “error of judgment” and apologized to Trump, but said there was no legal basis for its claim. Tim Davie, director general of the BBC, and Deborah Turness, director of BBC News, resigned following the affair.
Trump has denied responsibility for the incident, which was intended to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in the 2020 US presidential election.
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