{"id":318502,"date":"2025-12-16T05:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/318502\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:43:08","slug":"trump-sues-bbc-for-5bn-in-defamation-lawsuit-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/318502\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump sues BBC for $5bn in defamation lawsuit | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against the BBC, alleging the corporation’s Panorama documentary portrayed him in a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious” manner.<\/p>\n

The complaint relates to the broadcaster’s editing of a speech he made in 2021 on the day his supporters overran the Capitol building.<\/p>\n

Clips were spliced together from sections of the US president<\/a>‘s speech on January 6 2021 to make it appear he told supporters he was going to walk to the US Capitol with them to “fight like hell”.<\/p>\n

It aired in the documentary Trump: A Second Chance?, which was broadcast by the BBC<\/a> the week before last year’s US election.<\/p>\n

The US president is seeking damages of no less than $5bn (\u00a33.7bn).<\/p>\n

He has also sued for $5bn for alleged violation of a trade practices law. Both lawsuits have been filed in Florida.<\/p>\n

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BBC crisis: How did it happen?<\/p>\n

‘They put words in my mouth’<\/p>\n

Speaking in the Oval Office earlier on Monday, he said: “In a little while, you’ll be seeing I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth.<\/p>\n

“Literally, they put words in my mouth. They had me saying things that I never said coming out.”<\/p>\n

The scandal erupted earlier this year after a leaked memo highlighted concerns over the way the clips were edited.<\/p>\n

After the leak, BBC chair Samir Shah apologised on behalf of the broadcaster over an “error of judgement” and accepted the editing of the 2024 documentary gave “the impression of a direct call for violent action”.<\/p>\n

The fallout from the saga led to the resignation<\/a> of both the BBC director-general Tim Davie and the head of news Deborah Turness.<\/p>\n

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Earlier, BBC News reported the broadcaster had set out five main arguments in a letter to Mr Trump’s legal team as to why it did not believe there was a basis for a defamation claim.<\/p>\n

In November, the BBC officially apologised to the president<\/a>, adding that it was an “error of judgement” and saying the programme will “not be broadcast again in this form on any BBC platforms”.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson said “the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited,” but they also added that “we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against the BBC, alleging the corporation’s Panorama documentary portrayed him in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-318502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}