Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://gographicsoutput.com/video/exIPmEb8dWS.html Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Donald Trump Threatens BBC With $1bn Lawsuit shorts [RIpY2ffuTnD] Health Updated on August 07, 2026 EDT — Published on August 07, 2026 EDT President Trump said he has an “obligation” to sue the BBC over its editing of a speech he made in its Panorama programme. “I guess I have to [sue],” he said during an interview on Fox News which aired on Tuesday night. “Why not? They defrauded the public and they’ve admitted it.” Trump’s lawyer, Alejandro Brito, threatened libel action against the broadcaster this week, telling them they had until Friday to provide a “full and fair” retraction and “appropriately compensate President Trump for the harm caused,” or face a possible $1 billion lawsuit in Florida. READ MORE: “I think I have an obligation to do it because you can’t allow people to do that,” the president said on Fox’s The Ingraham Angle. Trump’s comments aired after editors of the Panorama programme said they were unaware of the way his speech had been “doctored” when they signed it off. He threatened the BBC with legal action over the 2024 show Trump: A Second Chance? after it gave the impression that he made a “direct call for violent action” because two sections of his speech before the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, were spliced together. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on X: Find us on Instagram: #trump #uspolitics #bbc jlxC78wdYGW tz6FUnsWMAU xxpzAxcaNdZ lzNyWnd2Xat DBVk4yiErSg mEBF5KvGwN5
President Trump said he has an “obligation” to sue the BBC over its editing of a speech he made in its Panorama programme. “I guess I have to [sue],” he said during an interview on Fox News which aired on Tuesday night. “Why not? They defrauded the public and they’ve admitted it.” Trump’s lawyer, Alejandro Brito, threatened libel action against the broadcaster this week, telling them they had until Friday to provide a “full and fair” retraction and “appropriately compensate President Trump for the harm caused,” or face a possible $1 billion lawsuit in Florida. READ MORE: “I think I have an obligation to do it because you can’t allow people to do that,” the president said on Fox’s The Ingraham Angle. Trump’s comments aired after editors of the Panorama programme said they were unaware of the way his speech had been “doctored” when they signed it off. He threatened the BBC with legal action over the 2024 show Trump: A Second Chance? after it gave the impression that he made a “direct call for violent action” because two sections of his speech before the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, were spliced together. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on X: Find us on Instagram: #trump #uspolitics #bbc jlxC78wdYGW tz6FUnsWMAU xxpzAxcaNdZ lzNyWnd2Xat DBVk4yiErSg mEBF5KvGwN5