US President Donald Trump has announced that he will sue the BBC over the edited Panorama speech despite the broadcaster’s apology.
According to The Guardian, Trump on Friday evening, November 14, said that he is planning a legal action against the British Broadcasting Corporation over his January 6, 2021, edited speech next week.
He told reporters aboard Air Force One, “We will sue them for anywhere between a billion and $5bn, probably sometime next week. We have to do it. They've even admitted that they cheated.”
This came after the public broadcaster on Thursday sent a personal apology to the American president for misleading edits of one of his speeches, calling the documentary by its show Panorama an “error of judgement” but also claiming that there is no basis for defamation claims.
The BBC also agreed to not show the edition of its program ever again.
Meanwhile, Trump, in an interview with GB News on Friday, asserted that it was “impossible to believe” the edit.
The 79-year-old said, “I made a beautiful statement, and they made it into a not beautiful statement. 'Fake news' was a great term, except it’s not strong enough. This is beyond fake, this is corrupt.”
BBC chair Samir Shah on Thursday sent an apology to the White House after receiving a $1 billion legal action threat from Trump.
Notably, the director general, Tim Davie, and the BBC News chief, Deborah Turness, resigned from their positions after backlash over the documentary edit.
