Trump says he will take legal action against the BBC over edited speech

Evening Standard

Donald Trump says he will sue the BBC next week after the corporation apologised but declined to compensate him for its edited version of a 2021 speech broadcast by Panorama.Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Friday, Mr Trump said: “We’ll sue them for anywhere between 1 billion dollars (£759.8 million) and 5 billion dollars (£3.79 billion), probably sometime next week.”The BBC apologised but said it refused to pay financial compensation. The corporation said the splicing of the speech was an “error of judgment”.

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00:00Exposing what fake news is all about, what BBC did.

00:03Nobody would even think a thing like that was done.

00:06They actually changed the words coming out of my mouth.

00:09So the BBC has apologized and retracted the report,

00:13but they say they won't pay any compensation.

00:16Well, we'll sue them.

00:17We'll sue them for anywhere between a billion and five billion dollars,

00:21probably sometime next week.

00:23So you're ready to take it?

00:24Well, I think I have to do it.

00:25I mean, they've even admitted that they cheated.

00:28I mean, not that they couldn't have not done that.

00:32They cheated.

00:33They changed the words coming out of my mouth.

00:36Have you raised the issue with Secure Starmer?

00:39I have not, but I'll call him.

00:40I'm going to call him over the weekend.

00:42He actually put a call in to me.

00:44He's very embarrassed by it.

00:46You know, that's, I don't know what percentage is owned by the country,

00:50but regardless if it's small or large or nothing,

00:52I can say this, the UK is very, very embarrassed by BBC,

00:57what they did.

00:58What they did.

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