Trump threatens to sue BBC for $1 billion over edited coverage of him [View all]

Source: Politico

Donald Trump threatened to sue the BBC for $1BN on Monday, amid a deepening crisis at Britain’s main public broadcaster over its coverage of his administration.

The move comes a day after the resignation of the broadcaster’s director general and its most senior news executive. The pair had come under fire over coverage of the U.S. president’s 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 Trump’s 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, Trump’s 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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