

According to The Hollywood Reporter, President Donald Trump has elected to partially drop some of his $10 Billion lawsuit against the BBC. Trump took legal action against the British Broadcasting Company last year over defamation claims. Trump alleges the BBC documentary Panorama maliciously edited Donald Trump’s speech at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in order to falsely portray that Trump intended to incite violence.
Trump’s original speech said, “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.” Panorama edited two separate parts of the speech together to say, “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol … and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.”
The lawsuit has been filed in the US District Court, Southern District of Florida, and totals 33 pages. It claims that the BBC made “a false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump.”
Now, the British press has revealed that the BBC studios have been dropped from the case. The document, released on Friday, states: “All claims in this action asserted against the Studios Defendants are hereby dismissed with prejudice, with each party to bear its own costs and attorney’s fees… President Trump shall continue prosecuting his causes of action against Defendant British Broadcasting Corporation.”
Reportedly, the US government may join the lawsuit; as it stands, it is currently a personal lawsuit. The Telegraph has reported that if the government gets involved, crucial documents could be withheld if the administration claims that their public release would threaten national security.
The BBC recently cited a filing asserting that the documentary was not broadcast in the US via BritBox, BBC.com, BBC Select, NPR, and PBS. Trumo’s complaint directly contradicts this filing.
The BBC did apologize to President Trump, but stopped short of any monetary reparation. While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree [that] there is a basis for a defamation claim,” a spokesperson said to THR late last year, ” the company stated.
The lawsuit coincided with a leaked memo from an independent advisor named Michael Prescott. Prescott believed that the documentary, Trump: A Second Chance?, had an anti-Trump bias.
