"The BBC plans to ask a court to throw out U.S. President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the British broadcaster, court papers show.Trump filed a lawsuit in December over the way the BBC edited a speech he gave on Jan. 6, 2021. The claim, filed in a Florida federal court, seeks $5 billion in damages for defamation and $5 billion for unfair trade practices."
"The BBC had broadcast the documentary - titled "Trump: A Second Chance?" - days before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. It spliced together three quotes from two sections of the 2021 speech, delivered almost an hour apart, into what appeared to be one quote in which Trump urged supporters to march with him and "fight like hell." Among the parts cut out was a section where Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully."
The BBC plans to file a motion to dismiss Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit, saying the court lacks jurisdiction and the complaint fails to state a claim. Trump sued over a BBC edit of his Jan. 6, 2021 speech, seeking $5 billion for defamation and $5 billion for unfair trade practices. The BBC aired a documentary that spliced quotes to make separate remarks appear as a single exhortation to "fight like hell," omitting a call for peaceful demonstration. The BBC has apologized but rejects defamation claims and will argue the documentary was not created, produced or broadcast in Florida and that Trump cannot plausibly allege malice or prove actual damages.
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