Trump Seeking Billions From BBC In Lawsuit Over Edited Speech

President Donald Trump formally filed a $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Monday over its editing of his speech on Jan. 6, 2021.

Two top BBC officials, Director General Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness, resigned in November after a dossier by Michael Prescott, a former external advisor to the network’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee, detailing instances of bias was leaked to the Telegraph. The lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida accused the BBC of interfering with the 2024 presidential election by airing an episode of “Panorama” featuring doctored video of Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021, to make it appear he incited the riot at the Capitol building.

“The Panorama Documentary falsely depicted President Trump telling supporters: ‘We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.’ (Falsely depicted at 33:53 of the Documentary),” the complaint says. “President Trump never uttered this sequence of words.”

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Telegraph associate editor Gordon Rayner broke down how the video was edited to present the appearance that Trump endorsed the riot in a video posted by the newspaper on YouTube Nov. 3, which was similar to a description of the events in the complaint.