2025-11-15 14:00
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2025-11-15 14:00
US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that next week he intends to sue the British broadcaster BBC for damages ranging from USD 1 to USD 5 billion in connection with the manipulation of his statements.
– We will sue them for between $1 billion and $5 billion, most likely next week. I have to do this. They even admitted that they cheated, Trump said in a conversation with journalists aboard the presidential plane.
– People in the UK are very angry about what happened. (…) Because it shows that the BBC is fake news – he added.
He announced that he intended to talk to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the weekend. He said Britain was “very, very ashamed of what the BBC has done.”
The British broadcaster issued an apology to the US president for manipulating his statements in a way suggesting that the politician incited the riots at the Capitol in 2021.
“While the BBC sincerely regrets the way in which this video has been edited, it strongly disagrees that there are grounds for a defamation claim,” the station said.
The US president's lawyers threatened on Sunday to sue the BBC for damages of up to $1 billion if the broadcaster does not withdraw the material, apologize to the president and compensate him for “financial and image damage.”
The “Panorama” program, broadcast in October 2024, before the US presidential elections, edited three fragments of Trump's speeches from January 2021 in a way that suggested that the politician, in one continuous statement, clearly encouraged his supporters to storm and riot at the Capitol.
From Washington Natalia Dziurdzińska (PAP)
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