“Donald Trump plans to sue the BBC for $1-5 billion over the improper editing of his Panorama speech, despite the BBC’s apology.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: BBC, “European Truth”
Details: The BBC said on Thursday that its editing of the January 6, 2021 speech had inadvertently given the “false impression that President Trump directly called for violent action” and said the speech would no longer be broadcast.
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The corporation apologized to the US president, but said it would not pay financial compensation.
“We’re going to sue them for $1 billion to $5 billion, probably next week … I think I have to do it. They cheated. They changed the words that I said,” Trump told reporters on Friday.
Afterward, Trump said he had a “duty” to sue the BBC.
“If you don’t do this, you won’t be able to prevent something like this from happening to other people,” the president believes.
He called the editing of his speech “egregious” and “worse than the Kamala thing,” referring to a dispute he had with CBS over a 60 Minutes interview with his 2024 rival Kamala Harris.
The BBC redaction appeared in the Panorama documentary, which aired days before the US presidential election in November 2024, but only sparked a major public outcry after the Daily Telegraph published a leaked internal BBC memo last week.
In a memo, a former independent external adviser to the BBC’s editorial standards committee expressed concern that part of the speech had been edited to appear to suggest the president was directly encouraging a riot in the Capitol in January 2021.
Trump actually said, “We will go to the Capitol and support our brave senators, congressmen and women.”
However, in the Panorama montage, he said: “We’re going to the Capitol… and I’m going to be there with you. And we’re going to fight. We’re going to fight, damn it.”
As a result, the BBC’s director-general, Tim Davey, and head of news, Deborah Terness, resigned.