"President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices. The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a "false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump," calling it "a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence" the 2024 U.S. presidential election."
"It accused the BBC of "splicing together two entirely separate parts of President Trump's speech on January 6, 2021" in order to "intentionally misrepresent the meaning of what President Trump said." The BBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press. The broadcaster had apologized last month to Trump over the edit of the Jan. 6 speech. But the publicly funded broadcaster rejected claims it had defamed him, after Trump threatened legal action."
"The BBC had broadcast the hourlong 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."
President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC alleging defamation and deceptive and unfair trade practices. The complaint asserts the BBC broadcast a false and malicious depiction by splicing separate portions of his January 6, 2021 speech to misrepresent his meaning. The BBC apologized for the edit and described it as an error of judgment, prompting resignations of top executives, but rejected claims of defamation after Trump threatened legal action. The contested hourlong documentary aired days before the 2024 U.S. presidential election and combined quotes that omitted a call for peaceful demonstration.
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