President Donald Trump sued The BBC for defamation, citing assembled passages of his speech that suggested that he ordered his supporters to storm Washington Capitol.
Trump Accused a British public broadcaster to defame him by assembling passages of the speech of January 6, 2021, including a passage in which he allegedly called on supporters to march to the Capitol, and a passage in which he said "fight like hell." The passage in which he called for peaceful protests was omitted. In his lawsuit, he accuses the BBC of defaming him and violating the law that forbids fraudulent and unfair commercial practices. Trump demands $5 billion in damages for each of the 2 charges in the lawsuit, and thus a full of $10 billion.
BBC sorry Trump, admitted an mistake in the assessment of the situation and admitted that the assembly had caused the incorrect impression that Trump was straight calling for violence. However, the broadcaster stated that there was no legal basis for bringing a lawsuit. Trump stated that the BBC, despite an apology, "has not shown any remorse for its wrongdoing or introduced any crucial organization changes to prevent future journalistic abuse".
The BBC is financed through a mandatory subscription, collected from all tv viewers, which, according to British lawyers, can make a possible payment to Trump have political implications.
Trump's legal squad spokesperson said in a message that the BBC "has long been deceiving its audience, reporting events related to president Trump to prosecute its own left-wing political goals".
Faced with 1 of the biggest crises in its 103-year history, the BBC stated that it did not plan to reissue the paper on any of its platforms. The video dispute, presented in the BBC documentary programme "Panorama" just before the presidential election in 2024, sparked the sender's image crisis, which led to the resignation of 2 of its most crucial officials.
Other media including CBS and ABC, which aired a fabricated clip, made a deal with Trump erstwhile he sued them after his triumph in the November 2024 election. Trump besides brought lawsuits against the "New York Times", the "Wall Street Journal" and the state paper Iowa.
Attack on the United States Capitol in January 2021 It aimed to prevent legislature from recognizing Joe Biden's triumph over Trump in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
For decades, the BBC has been regarded as a model of media integrity. Unfortunately, it has been mastered for any time by far-left activists, for whom what serves left-wing ideology is true. The station's reliability ceased to exist.
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