US EditionBBC News says it received legal threat from Trump over speech edit
Trump demands a full retraction and apology from the BBC over the edited January 6 speech, citing more than 500 complaints and threatening $1 billion in damages.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump demanded the BBC retract a documentary, apologise and compensate him by Friday, Nov. 14, or face legal action seeking $1,000,000,000.
- The Panorama episode 'Trump: A Second Chance?' spliced passages from Mr Trump's 6 January 2021 speech, making it appear he urged supporters to march to the US Capitol and 'fight like hell,' critics said, after a memo by Michael Prescott flagged the splice and concerns.
- BBC chair Samir Shah said the corporation received more than 500 complaints since the memo publication and added, `Like all public organisations, the BBC is not perfect, and we must always be open, transparent and accountable.`
- Two senior BBC executives, Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, resigned on Sunday, while BBC chair Samir Shah is set to apologise to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee amid talks of a BBC charter review.
- The controversy has reignited debate over alleged institutional bias at the BBC and coincides with its upcoming charter review and Donald Trump's history of suing media.
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Trump threatens $1bn lawsuit, BBC apologises for biased video editing
LONDON — United States President Donald Trump threatened the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) with a billion-dollar lawsuit Monday as the broadcaster apologised for editing a speech that gave the impression he urged "violent action" ahead of the 2021 assault on the US Capitol.
Trump threatens $1 billion action over BBC ’edit error’
US President Donald Trump threatened the BBC with a billion-dollar lawsuit Monday as the broadcaster apologised for editing a speech that gave the impression he urged "violent action" ahead of the 2021 assault on the US Capitol. In a letter seen by AFP, Trump's lawyers gave the British broadcaster until Friday to fully retract the documentary containing the edit, apologise and "appropriately compensate" the president "for the harm caused". If th…
President Trump threatens $1 billion lawsuit against BBC
President Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for at least $1 billion, demanding that the network retract what his attorneys describe as “false and defamatory” statements made in a Panorama documentary about the January 6 Capitol attack that aired before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. In a letter addressed to BBC Studios Productions Chairman Samir Shah and General Counsel Sarah Jones, Trump’s attorney Alejandro Brito accused the broadcaste…
Trump threatens BBC with US$1b lawsuit over edited Capitol riot speech
LONDON, Nov 11 — US President Donald Trump threatened the BBC with a billion-dollar lawsuit yesterday as the broadcaster apologised for editing a speech that gave the impression he urged “violent action” ahead of the 2021 assault on the US Capitol.In a letter seen by AFP, Trump’s lawyers gave the British broadcaster until Friday to fully retract the documentary containing the edit, apologise and “appropriately compensate” the president “for the …
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