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Trump Files Lawsuit Against BBC Over Speech Edit
(MENAFN) US President Donald Trump initiated legal action against the BBC on Monday, pursuing $5 billion in damages for alleged defamation stemming from a modified version of his Jan. 6, 2021, address broadcast by the British network.
The complaint, submitted in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, also includes an additional $5 billion claim under the state’s trade practices statute, bringing the total sought damages to $10 billion across the two allegations.
Trump’s legal team asserted that the BBC depicted him in a "false, defamatory, malicious, disparaging, and inflammatory" manner within a documentary aired in the UK just a week prior to the 2024 election.
Earlier on Monday, Trump told the press that he planned to sue the BBC "for putting words in my mouth."
"Literally, they put words in my mouth. They had me saying things that I never said," Trump remarked.
The president accused the UK’s publicly funded broadcaster of defaming him by piecing together segments of his Jan. 6 speech — emphasizing his calls to march on the Capitol and to “fight like hell” while omitting statements in which he encouraged supporters to protest peacefully.
In November, the BBC issued an apology to Trump for airing the Panorama documentary that combined two separate lines from his speech, but it maintained that it would not provide compensation or acknowledge his defamation claim.
The complaint, submitted in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, also includes an additional $5 billion claim under the state’s trade practices statute, bringing the total sought damages to $10 billion across the two allegations.
Trump’s legal team asserted that the BBC depicted him in a "false, defamatory, malicious, disparaging, and inflammatory" manner within a documentary aired in the UK just a week prior to the 2024 election.
Earlier on Monday, Trump told the press that he planned to sue the BBC "for putting words in my mouth."
"Literally, they put words in my mouth. They had me saying things that I never said," Trump remarked.
The president accused the UK’s publicly funded broadcaster of defaming him by piecing together segments of his Jan. 6 speech — emphasizing his calls to march on the Capitol and to “fight like hell” while omitting statements in which he encouraged supporters to protest peacefully.
In November, the BBC issued an apology to Trump for airing the Panorama documentary that combined two separate lines from his speech, but it maintained that it would not provide compensation or acknowledge his defamation claim.
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