Trump threatens to sue BBC for $1 billion over edited coverage of him
Source: Politico
Donald Trump threatened to sue the BBC for $1BN on Monday, amid a deepening crisis at Britains main public broadcaster over its coverage of his administration.
The move comes a day after the resignation of the broadcasters director general and its most senior news executive. The pair had come under fire over coverage of the U.S. presidents remarks on Jan. 6, 2021 the day rioters breached the U.S. Congress.
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According to NBC News and Fox News Digital, a letter from Trumps legal team gave the BBC a deadline of 5 p.m. EST (10 p.m. in the U.K.) this coming Friday, Nov. 14, to retract any false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements about him.
Failure to comply will, Trumps team reportedly said, mean the president will be left with no alternative but to enforce his legal and equitable rights, all of which are expressly reserved and are not waived, including by filing legal action for no less than $1,000,000,000 (One Billion Dollars) in damages. The BBC is on notice.
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Read more: https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-threatens-bbc-with-legal-action/
Irish_Dem
(77,969 posts)Easterncedar
(5,278 posts)And what damages? Mfer won it all.
mwooldri
(10,759 posts)British Broadcasting Corporations first answer would simply be - we're a UK broadcaster governed by UK law, sue us in the right court first.
Second answer would be that the BBC is a regulated broadcaster and is subject to those regulations.... Has DJT filed the appropriate complaint with the regulator?
In any case the BBC is probably under particular scrutiny by the US right wing because the BBC does have a significant US presence. If a major non-English speaking broadcaster were to broadcast the same stuff and not in the USA these right wing Yanks wouldn't be saying a thing and DJT would be clueless.
mwb970
(12,012 posts)progressoid
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bmichaelh
(1,047 posts)Has Trump reimbursed Christopher Steele as it has been ordered to.
What if a UK court said they will not hear any complaint until Trump pays?
Picaro
(2,295 posts)BBC tried to placate this useless sack of rotting protoplasm and, predictably, he wants more.
They should have stood firm and refused to provide any ceremonial sacrifices (resignations). Then told Trump to do something anatomically impossible to himself.
They just fanned the flames of Trumps inexhaustible fountain of grievance.
Quanto Magnus
(1,281 posts)for all of his actions...
$1 billion sounds like a good starting point....