Posted on 11/12/2025 8:57:15 AM PST by Navy Patriot
President Donald Trump said he had an "obligation" to sue the BBC over a misleading speech edit, stopping short of announcing legal action in a Fox News interview aired on Tuesday.
Trump's lawyers threatened the British broadcaster with a billion-dollar lawsuit on Monday, according to a letter seen by AFP, as the BBC apologized for giving the impression the president had urged "violent action" ahead of the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
In the Fox News interview, which was recorded Monday, Trump was asked if he planned to sue the BBC.
"I guess I have to, why not?" said the president in his first public comments on the potential for legal action.
"I think I have an obligation to do it because you can't allow people to do that," Trump said, without confirming whether he had officially begun proceedings to file a defamation lawsuit.
"They defrauded the public and they've admitted it."
Britain "is supposedly one of our great allies," and "the government has a chunk of that one," Trump added, referring to the BBC.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour government has been performing a tightrope act between backing the publicly funded broadcaster's independence without seeming to take a side against Trump.
The BBC director general and the organisation's top news executive resigned Sunday over the controversy.
The BBC has said that it would "review" the letter from Trump's legal team. BBC chair Samir Shah issued a public apology on Monday for an "error of judgment" made in the editing.
Fifty-seven percent of Britons believe the BBC should apologize directly to the American president, according to a YouGov poll published on Tuesday. But a quarter were against such an apology.
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He’s looking for an offer…why go to court if they’re willing to settle
Even if the lawsuit just results in a lot of ugly discovery that reveals internal BBC emails and memos, that would be good too.
How else to deter this kind and this size of Orwellian media fraud on the public in the future?
Trump should sue.
Absolutely! The damage they have done and their unalloyed, criminal malice is breathtaking!!
They hardly rate the name ‘media outlet’
Because he doesn't need the money. This is to keep warning these lefty news outlets they can no longer get away with lying about him.
Yes.
These mea culpas are fake-only done because of proof made public. Just seeing the emails and memos will be a treasure trove.
Reports coming out of the UK suggest the BBC won’t apologize or pay up because they will state that they did Trump no harm.
But that distorted video was less about hurting Trump with his base and more about harming him with swing voters or Donald Dems.
BTW, if the Beeb involved their insurer in this, which may he why the BBC is refusing to pay up (their insurerer is refusing to cover their loss), them their insurer may end up in the witness box.
This isn’t just about slander/defamation.
The Beeb defamed Trump alright.
With the intent to interfere in our election.
Since we can’t arrest the expletives-deleted responsible, I’m just fine with the POTUS suing the BBC into extinction.
And a lot of Brits will be cheering him on.
Thanks, Pluribus, that Youtube is very helpful in understanding the BBC Lie.
But...but...but...Republicans are supposed to take the high road, and let these things slide. While Democrats are up ahead, digging potholes and scattering nails....maybe an IED.
Get the Pounds NOW before it changes to sheckels or Dracma’s...England is done , I have friends there and they say sand people are everywhere . Same is happening here but we are not disarmed as far as civilians are concerned.
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