Trump threatened to sue the BBC for a billion dollars

According to RCO News Agency, “Donald Trump”, the President of the United States, threatened the BBC with a lawsuit worth 1 billion dollars today (Monday). The move came after the BBC released a documentary that, according to Trump’s lawyer, contained “malicious and derogatory edits” of his speech on January 6, 2021.

Trump claims that the BBC, in one of its documentaries, accused him of ordering an attack on the US Capitol by editing images of Trump’s speech on January 6, 2021.

This legal threat was sent in the form of a letter from one of Trump’s lawyers to the BBC, and a copy of it was obtained by the New York Times. In this letter, he demanded “a full apology, collection of documents and payment of proportionate damages to compensate for the damages” to Trump.

A part of this letter states: “If these demands are not fulfilled, President Trump will have to take action to assert his legal and civil rights; including a lawsuit in the amount of less than one billion dollars.”

The BBC said on its website that it had received the threatening letter and “will respond in due course”. The mentioned documentary titled “Trump: A Second Chance?” which aired before the 2024 presidential election, has been removed from the BBC’s online streaming system.

Samir Shah, chairman of the BBC’s board of directors, wrote in a separate letter on Monday that complaints about the editing of Trump’s speech at the Standards Committee meetings in January and May had been investigated and the results of the investigation had been communicated to the documentary production team. He added: “Looking back, it would have been better to take a more formal action. We accept that the way the speech was edited gave the impression that there was a direct call to violent action. The BBC apologizes for this error.”

In the wake of increasing pressure on the way this documentary was edited, BBC Director General Tim Davey and Deborah Terence, head of the News department of the network, resigned from their positions on Sunday.

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