Posted on 11/10/2025 6:02:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
US president condemns broadcaster’s ‘reckless disregard for truth’ as he threatens legal action over doctoring of his speech
Donald Trump threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn (£760m), accusing it of a “reckless disregard for the truth”.
The US president turned the screw on the corporation as it was reeling from the resignation of director-general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness over the selective editing of Mr Trump’s speech on the day of the Capitol Hill riot.
A senior official in the Trump administration suggested it “may consider” removing the BBC’s White House passes as a result of the row.
The Telegraph first disclosed on Nov 3 that Panorama spliced together two separate parts of the speech in a way that wrongly suggested Mr Trump had urged his supporters to behave violently. The revelations were contained in a leaked internal memo that also identified anti-Israel and pro-trans bias inside the BBC.
Lawyers acting for Mr Trump sent a legal letter to the BBC on Sunday demanding compensation, an apology and a retraction of “false” and “inflammatory statements” made about him in the Panorama documentary.
Mr Trump’s lawyers said a “failure to comply will leave President Trump with no choice than to pursue” the broadcaster for damages for the “overwhelming financial and reputational harm”. The US president gave the BBC a deadline of Friday to comply, or face a legal claim for $1bn in the Florida courts.
The ultimatum was delivered as the BBC grappled with the fallout from the resignations on Sunday night of Mr Davie and Ms Turness, the chief executive in charge of news and current affairs.
Samir Shah, the BBC’s chairman, apologised for an “error of judgment” over the doctoring of Mr Trump’s speech in a letter to the culture, media and sport committee of MPs...
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so far bbc doubling down claiming that they report in an unbiased manner lol
Good. Go President Trump! At least we have one guy fighting against the machine.
The MSM has harped about imagined Russia interference since 2016. Here they ignore actual interference.
It was SO blatantly obvious that they edited what Trump said, they just spliced it around
Yes, very blatant. No mistake, no error, just plain evil intention to splice it the way they did. BBC is evil!
Back in the 70s I would tune in to BBC world services on my shortwave (Grundig Radio) and get the truth of what was happening in the world. I was oilfield then and worked in isolated areas of third world nations. The BBC was always they with the news as it really was with very rare exceptions. Unfortunately, that is no more.
I did not leave the BBC. The BBC left me.
Yep- even CNN used to be a reliable news source at one time- but they went far left real fast
The BBC is an extension. Of the British government, so the US government could confiscate British property in the US.
Yep- AS Rob Schmitt said laughing “Listen to how easily they sit there and lie” or something like that
Fake but accurate.
LOL Dan Rathernot’s favorite saying
“I’ll take the Falkland Islands...”
I so love this.
Watch the 2 clips side by side. BBC used AI to manufacture a completely fraudulent clip of Trump on Jan 6th. This was no “just a mistake”. They have no way to mount a defense in Court when those two clips are played side by side.
Didnt learn their lesson from the Princess Diana fiasco that had drastic repercussions for Diana and her family.
The Trump Presidential Library is going to be biggest, grandest, most beautiful presidential library... and the BBC is going to pay for it.
Screw the apology.
Sue them for $10B and destroy them. Make sure they can never again publish in the US.
Well, they are after us, but DJT is in the way!
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