According to Deadline, President Donald Trump has made it clear that the apology for the BBC lawsuit over an allegedly misleading documentary edit did not make him less angry. Although he acquired an apology, he requested from the UK public broadcaster over spliced clip that ran last year of his infamous Eclipse speech, Trump decided not to let this error of judgment go.
“We’ll sue them for anywhere between $1 billion and $5 billion, probably sometime next week,” a chatty Trump told reporters tonight, traveling from the nation’s capital to his Mar-A-Lago estate on Air Force One via Deadline. “Well I think I have to do it.”
As per Deadline, showcased in an internal BBC report, which then recently ended up in the hands of the Daily Telegraph, the segment of the documentary, which took two parts of Trump’s January 6, 2021, speech to MAGA supporters and seamlessly edited them together. Although it surprised many at the time of broadcast, the impression was the -2020 election result contesting POTUS was advocating violence with words of “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell.”
According to Deadline, Trumo tried deflecting questions on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and asked about a potential US military strike on Venezuela, Trump clearly had those past media pay-outs on his mind Friday as he jetted down to the Sunshine State. “They even admitted that they cheated,” he said to the press. “They changed the words coming out of my mouth. That’s worse than what CBS did with Kamala.”
As per Deadline, the issues with the edit fallout led to the sudden resignations of BBC director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness, the BBC apologized to POTUS on Thursday over the edited clip that appeared in Trump: A Second Chance?.
“We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech, rather than excerpts from different points in the speech, and that this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action,” the Samir Shah chaired public broadcaster said in a November 13 statement via Deadline. “The BBC would like to apologise to President Trump for that error of judgement. This programme was not scheduled to be re-broadcast and will not be broadcast again in this form on any BBC platforms.”
According to Deadline, another Trump speech edit governed another apology that led to Shah also sending an apology letter directly to the White House. the broadcaster stated the Panorama documentary had never aired in the USA ands they rejected any notion that Trump had a legit defamation case. This shows that BBC missed the mark with Trump, who always takes everything personally and always wants to be paid.