President Donald Trump made good on his threat to sue the BBC on Monday for $5 billion, despite the network apologizing for airing a program last year that edited clips from his speech on January 6, 2021, to indicate he was calling for violence.
Trump's attorneys threatened to sue the network for $1 billion last month over its broadcast of the Panorama episode if it did not issue a retraction, apologize and compensate him for the misleading edits.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, argued the BBC “maliciously” tied two comments together that Trump made more than 54 minutes apart in order to give the impression that he’d urged his supporters to engage in violence.
“It would have been impossible for BBC’s journalists and producers to splice together two distinct parts of the Speech from nearly 55 minutes apart unless they were acting intentionally,” the suit claimed. “Such a dramatic distortion could never have occurred by accident.”
