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BBC to file motion to dismiss Trump defamation lawsuit over Panorama edit: Report
The BBC argues the Florida court lacks jurisdiction and that Trump’s defamation claims fail legally, with damages sought up to $10 billion in this dispute over a 2024 Panorama edit.
- The BBC will file a motion to dismiss Donald Trump's lawsuit over how his speech was edited in a Panorama documentary.
- The BBC apologised for the edit but disagreed there was basis for a defamation claim, asserting the documentary did not defame Trump or cause actual damage.
- A leaked BBC memo criticised the speech edit, leading to resignations of the BBC director general and head of news.
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BBC refuses to back down from $10 billion Trump shakedown, files motion to dismiss
Donald Trump is on a mission to destroy the British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC has been firmly in Trump’s firing line after it aired an episode of its documentary show Panorama that edited Trump’s notorious Jan. 6 speech to give the impression he ordered his supporters to storm the Capitol building. The clip indicated that Trump told the crowd, “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you, and we fight. We fight lik…
The corporation believes that the documentary over which the lawsuit was filed is fair, despite the editing of one of its excerpts.
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