{"id":289161,"date":"2025-11-13T13:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/289161\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:20:16","slug":"trump-wants-money-from-the-bbc-can-he-get-it-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/289161\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump wants money from the BBC. Can he get it?\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump\u2019s latest claim is the flipside of his $20 billion suit against CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d over an interview with then-Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, which Trump claimed was deceptively edited to make Harris look good and therefore amounted to election interference.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CBS settled for $16 million in July<\/a>, paying into a fund for Trump\u2019s presidential library or charitable causes, though the network admitted no wrongdoing. The settlement came as CBS\u2019 parent company, Paramount, was pursuing a corporate merger that the Trump administration had the power to block \u2014 and after Trump publicly said he thought CBS should lose its broadcast license, which is also granted by the federal government.<\/p>\n

The president doesn\u2019t hold that same sway over the BBC, though the organization does have some U.S.-based commercial operations. Some news organizations have also opted to fight rather than settle past Trump claims, including CNN, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

\"\"Some news organizations have opted to fight rather than settle past Trump claims, including CNN, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. | Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cLitigation is always a commercial decision and it\u2019s a reputational decision,\u201d said Coleman, suggesting settlement talks may look appealing compared to fighting a case that could \u201chang over the heads of the BBC for many, many years, like a dark cloud.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Could the British government step in?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite the BBC\u2019s standing as a state broadcaster, the Labour government has so far taken a hands-off approach, perhaps unsurprisingly given Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s ongoing efforts to woo Trump on trade.<\/p>\n

No. 10 said on Tuesday that the lawsuit threat was a matter for the BBC, though Starmer subsequently reiterated his support for it generally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s latest claim is the flipside of his $20 billion suit against CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d over an interview…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,223,9576,150,7253,2302,690,7259,12,1070,34357,151972,151973,9042,5744,7672,149121,10815,26022,3,9006,151974,514,45057,9581,14809,6808,1049,21,19,22,20,25,24,918,1139,9583],"class_list":["post-289161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-books","tag-british-politics","tag-budget","tag-cloud","tag-courts","tag-culture","tag-digital","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-feed","tag-george-freeman","tag-gerry-adams","tag-insurance","tag-kamala-harris","tag-keir-starmer","tag-lisa-nandy","tag-media","tag-mergers","tag-news","tag-payments","tag-petro-poroshenko","tag-privacy","tag-publishers","tag-rights","tag-services","tag-tourism","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wall-street","tag-war","tag-westminster-bubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}