The President of the United States, Donald Trumppresented this Monday a defamation suit against the BBC for the editing of his speech of January 6, 2021 in a television documentary Panorama.
Trump asks 10,000 million dollars (8,500 million euros) for damages, according to court documents filed in Florida.
The President of the United States accused the British public broadcaster of having defamed him by attaching fragments of a speech of January 6, 2021including a section where he urged his supporters to march to the Capitol and another where he said to “fight tooth and nail.” The network omitted a section in which it called for peaceful protests.
BBC apologizes to Trump in November, but rejected their claims for compensation and the company did not acknowledge there was “a basis for a defamation claim.”
The civil complaint, to which you had access The New York Timesaccuses the BBC of producing a “false, defamatory, misleading, derogatory and malicious representation” of the tenant of the White House in a documentary broadcast on the program Panoramaand to attempt “blatantly” with this audiovisual product “to interfere and influence the result of the elections to (their) detriment” of 2024.
Furthermore, the 46-page document points the finger at the British network for allegedly violating the Florida state law on deceptive and unfair commercial practices, demanding compensation of 5 billion dollars (4.255 million euros) for each offense.
The president’s defense said in a statement that the goal of the trial is to arrest the “once respected, now discredited” BBCwho until now has not commented on the matter, for what she described as an irregularity.
“I’m going to sue the BBC for putting words in my mouth,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. “They made me say things that I never said publicly. I guess they used artificial intelligence or something.“, he added.
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