Donald Trump threatened to sue the BBC. The station apologizes and issues a statement

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt announced on Wednesday that Donald Trump's lawyers are filing a lawsuit against the BBC. The British station allegedly manipulated the statement of the American president. It's a fragment from the documentary “Trump: A Second Chance?” of January 6, 2021

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.

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However, on Thursday, as Reuters indicates, the American president's legal team was to inform that he was refraining from filing a lawsuit to give the BBC time to “properly respond.”

BBC apologizes to Donald Trump

The station issued an official apology to Trump just a few hours later. In a statement, the company admitted that editing the video gave “the false impression that President Trump was directly calling for violent action.” The BBC also announced that it would no longer show the program on any of its platforms.

The BBC also reported that the station's president, Samir Shah, had sent a separate letter to the White House. In it, he was supposed to make it clear to Trump that he and the entire corporation apologized for the editing of his speech. “Although we sincerely regret […] “We strongly disagree that there are grounds for a defamation claim,” he emphasized in a statement. Earlier, the US president, in addition to apologizing and admitting the mistake, also demanded that the station pay compensation.

“The fallout from the scandal led to the resignation of BBC director-general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness,” the statement also read.