The BBC sends a letter of apology to Donald Trump after misleading edits, but ‘strongly denies’ the basis of the defamation claim

Britain’s public media group is also investigating a second case of possible misleading editing of the US president’s speech. Donald Trump threatens to sue the BBC for a billion dollars.

He wouldn’t let that happen. BBC chairman Samir Shah has sent a letter to Donald Trump to apologize after a misleading montage of the United States President’s speech was broadcast, the BBC announced on Thursday (13 November). In contrast, the British public media group “very competitive” any legal basis for a defamation complaint from Donald Trump, who is threatening to sue for a billion dollars.

Samir Shah “sent a private letter to the White House explaining to President Trump that he and his company apologized” to edit this speech, explained the BBC. The montage shown on the “Panorama” program in October 2024 edited several sentences from Donald Trump’s speech in Washington on January 6, 2021, shortly before the attack on the Capitol by his supporters. “While the BBC sincerely regrets the way these images were edited, we categorically deny that there is any legal basis for the defamation claim.”however, argued the British public audiovisual group, whose lawyers responded to the American president’s lawyers.

The BBC also made the announcement on Thursday “investigation” about the second case regarding possible misleading editing of Donald Trump’s speech. According to the newspaper TelegraphThe BBC broadcast in June 2022 in its news magazine “Newsnight” a montage similar to Panorama, in which sentences were edited so that Donald Trump appeared to call on his supporters to go to Congress and “beat with all my might”.