Trump officially sues BBC for $10 billion

President Donald Trump has finally made good on his promise to sue the BBC.

Trump has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which includes a count of defamation and another count of violating a Florida trade practices law. He is requesting to receive $5 billion for each count.

This is something his legal team threatened to do in response to alleged “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” made about Trump by the BBC Panorama documentary on his January 6 speech. They allege that some of the statements were “fabricated and aired by the BBC,” and vowed to “pursue any and all legal rights and remedies available to recover damages for the overwhelming financial and reputational harm that the BBC has caused him to suffer, with all rights and remedies being expressly reserved by President Trump.”

The president has previously indicated that he feels “obliged” to take legal action against the network.

“I think I have an obligation to do it,” Trump said. “Look, I’m not looking to get into lawsuits, but I think I have an obligation to do it. This was so egregious. If you don’t do it, you don’t stop it from happening again with other people. I think we probably do have an obligation.”

“I’d like to find out why they did it so bad. Who thinks like this? And I wonder if they’ve done it, we’ll find this out in the next part of the litigation, we’ll find out how many times they’ve done it to other people,” he continued. “Maybe they’ve done it to me quite a bit.”

“In the Panorama documentary, titled ‘Trump: A Second Chance,’ which was first broadcast on October 28, 2024—a week before the 2024 United States presidential election—the BBC intentionally sought to completely mislead its viewers by splicing together three separate parts of President Trump’s speech to supporters,” the letter from Trump’s legal team reads. “The documentary showed President Trump telling supporters: ‘We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol, and I’ll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.’”

However, the actual statement from the president was:

We’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down any one of you but I think right here, we’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.

The BBC is also accused of conveniently editing out Trump saying, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

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