Trump Has Vowed To Continue Pursuing The BBC. What Happens Next?

US President Donald Trump has insisted that he will still be suing the BBC.Donald Trump has confirmed he is still trying to sue the BBC over its Panorama edit even after it apologised to him last week.The corporation has been in the firing line ever since a leaked internal memo uncovered that an episode from October 2024 had altered the US president’s speech to his supporters back in January 6, 2021.Critics accused the edit of implying Trump had inciting a riot – and the litigious US president has got his lawyers on the case. Here’s what you need to know.Why is Donald Trump asking the BBC to pay him billions of dollars?Before the violent riot across the Capitol contesting the 2020 election result broke out, Trump told his supporters: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”More than 50 minutes later, he said: “And we fight. We fight like hell.”But in the Panorama edit, it showed Trump as saying: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol... and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.”The row over the episode triggered the resignation of both BBC director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness last week, plunging the corporation into crisis amid accusations of bias.Lawyers for the president then threatened to sue for defamation and wrote to the corporation asking for a retraction, an apology and $1 billion in compensation.How has the BBC reacted to Trump’s calls for compensation?The BBC apologised on Thursday and promised that it would never show the episode in question, but it refused to pay any money to Trump over the issue.A spokesperson said: “While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim.”What will Trump do next?On Friday, the president responded by bumping up just how much he will be asking from the corporation to up to $5 billion.He told reporters on board of Air Force One: “We’ll sue them from $1 billion to $5 billion, probably sometime next week.“We have to do it, the’ve even admitted that they cheated. Not that they couldn’t have not done that.“They cheated. They changed the words coming out of my mouth.”Trump also reiterated his previous claims that he had an “obligation” to sue the corporation in a sit-down interview with GB News.He told presenter Bev Turner: “I’m not looking to get into lawsuits, but I think I have an obligation to do it.“This was so egregious if you don’t. You don’t stop it from happening again with other people.”However, on Saturday, a BBC spokesperson said: “We have no further contact from President Trump’s lawyers at this point. Our position remains the same.”Former director of news at the BBC Roger Mosey told ITV News Trump was “playing politics”.“Of course, he had a right to be aggrieved by the way the BBC edited the Panorama programme,” he said, before questioning if any such upset was “worth” $5 billion.“He didn’t even know he had been libelled in this way until a week ago and somehow it has become the most damaging thing in his career.”What will Keir Starmer do when it comes to Trump’s troubles with the BBC?Ministers have tried to avoid getting too involved in this case so far, with culture secretary Lisa Nandy only saying it was right the BBC had apologised to the president.But Trump has claimed that prime minister Keir Starmer is “very embarrassed” by the scandal, and had already “tried to put a call in to me” about it.The Telegraph reported that Starmer intends to tell the president the BBC “must get its house in order” – while still insisting the BBC is a strong British institution, and has to play its part in an age of disinformation.Meanwhile, Lib Dem leader Ed Davey called on the prime minister to stand up for the public broadcaster.He said: “This is Keir Starmer’s moment to stand up for Britain, for every TV licence fee payer in the country and for a free press that can hold the powerful to account.“When he speaks to Trump, Keir Starmer must demand that he drops his ludicrous lawsuit and stops interfering in our country.“The prime minister has spent months cosying up to the president. If he can’t stop him attacking one of our most precious institutions and hitting millions of licence fee payers in the pocket, what was it all for?”Questions also hang over just how successful a defamation case would be.The original episode was shown more than a year ago – meaning it will be outside the window for a claim in the UK – and there was already global coverage of Jan 6.Related...'Irony Is Dead': Ex-BBC Journalist Points Out 1 Surprise Character Backing Trump Amid BBC RowTrump Insists He Has An 'Obligation' To Sue BBC: 'They Defrauded The Public'BBC Apologises To Trump Over Editing Jan 6 Speech – But Rejects Call For $1bn Compensation

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