— The president's lawyers have filed a lawsuit against the BBC. “We expect this to continue, and whether or not they apologize is up to them,” Leavitt said during a press briefing Wednesday. In this way, she responded to a question from the British channel GB News about whether the authorities in London expressed sufficient regret for manipulating the US President's statements.
According to reports, among others: NBC television Donald Trump initially demanded an apology, but Leavitt's words indicate that the US president will demand compensation in the amount of $1 billion. regardless of the BBC's apology.
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Trump-BBC dispute
Leavitt said that although Trump has good relations with British Prime Minister Starmer, they do not agree on the BBC, which the US president considers a “left-wing propaganda machine.”
The US president's lawyers sent a letter to the British broadcaster, threatening a lawsuit and demanding at least USD 1 billion in damages for the BBC's publication of material with Trump's manipulated statement. The representatives of the head of state set the British broadcaster a deadline to respond by Friday (November 14), until… 10 p.m. UK time (11 p.m. Polish time).
According to the station's internal report, disclosed in early October, in the fall of 2024, a week before the vote in the US presidential elections, the “Panorama” program broadcast a BBC documentary entitled “Trump: A Second Chance?”, which contained an edited fragment of Donald Trump's speech on January 6, 2021. The material was intended to give the impression that Trump was encouraging his supporters to attack the Capitol.
The montage combined his words encouraging supporters to go to the Capitol with a statement from the same rally in which he encouraged them to “fight like hell or they won't have a country anymore.” In fact, Trump urged participants to go to the Capitol to “cheer on the brave senators and congressmen” who the president hoped would vote against certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.
