President Donald Trump threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion over its role in election interference.
The letter, written by Trump attorney Alejandro Brito to the broadcaster, obtained by Fox News, demands that “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” made against the president be retracted.
“Failure to comply will leave President Trump with no choice but to pursue any and all legal rights and remedies available to recover damages for the overwhelming financial and reputational harm that the BBC has caused him to suffer, with all rights and remedies being expressly reserved by President Trump,” the letter states.
“In the Panorama documentary, titled ‘Trump: A Second Chance,’ which was first broadcast on October 28, 2024—a week before the 2024 United States presidential election—the BBC intentionally sought to completely mislead its viewers by splicing together three separate parts of President Trump’s speech to supporters,” the letter reads. “The documentary showed President Trump telling supporters: ‘We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol, and I’ll be there with you and we fight. We fight like [removed] and if you don’t fight like [removed], you’re not going to have a country anymore.’”
Instead, President Trump directed protesters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
“We’re gonna walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re gonna walk down, we’re gonna walk down any one you want but I think right here, we’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and we’re gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong,” Trump said in his speech. “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Meanwhile, two BBC executives have stepped down due to the controversy.
