US EditionTrump sues BBC for $5 billion, claims defamation from Panorama documentary
Trump alleges the BBC deceptively edited his Jan. 6 speech to falsely imply incitement, seeking $5 billion in damages for defamation and Florida trade law violations.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump announced he planned to file suit against the British Broadcasting Corporation within days, saying `They had me saying things that I never said.`
- The dispute stems from a Panorama episode that spliced parts of Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech at the Ellipse, Washington, D.C., into a 12-second clip, omitting peaceful calls, and premiered on October 28, 2024.
- The BBC apologised and said its edit gave the mistaken impression of a direct call for violent action, agreed never to re-air the segment, and the leaked report prompted resignations of Tim Davie, director-general, and Deborah Turness, head of news.
- Trump’s legal team has threatened to sue for between one billion and five billion dollars, with U.K. statute of limitations time-barred, making U.S. courts the likely venue amid jurisdictional hurdles.
- Media-Law experts caution that U.S. defamation claims face steep hurdles, with Mark Stephens CBE saying a libel trial would scrutinize Trump’s January 6 conduct and BBC internal reviews.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed that disgraced former Prime Minister Liz Truss is a ‘voice of authority’ as part of his defamation lawsuit against the BBC. Trump wants to sue the BBC after Panorama broadcast a misleading edit of a speech he made before the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021. During the speech, before a riot at the US Capitol, Trump told a crowd: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brav…
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