The prestigious British chain BBC He did not take long to take the first measures after the publication of a report that contained, edited, Donald Trump’s famous speech in which he spoke about the protests that led to the riots of the assault on the Capitol in January 2021, after refusing to expressly recognize his electoral defeat to Biden. British Television CEO Tim Davie and Chief News Officer Deborah Turness . But Trump suggests that’s not enough.
In its header environment, the American president has been asked about the threat of a , and in terms of damages. This was the first time that Trump has spoken publicly on the matter. “Well, I think I have an obligation to do it, because you can’t allow people to do that,” he said on the show ‘The Ingraham Angle’.
Said legal action was announced through his lawyers, pointing out that the only way to avoid said lawsuit would be the issuance of a retraction, a public apology and… compensation. Economical, presumably, judging by its strategy with the rest of the media that it has been suing as ABC News o CBS Newsbut which has not ended up in court due to extrajudicial agreements with compensation in their favor. .
Trump: “It was a beautiful speech, very reassuring”
The American president has assured that “in fact, [en la edición del documental] They changed my January 6 speech, which was a beautiful speech, a very reassuring speech, and they made it sound radical.” Trump has elaborated on that idea, adding that “and in fact they changed it. “What they did was really incredible.”
It should be remembered that the ultimatum that the legal defense of the US president has given to the BBC expires this Friday, at 10:00 p.m. This would be the maximum period that the British network would have to respond to the request for retraction, apology and compensation.
Although the BBC is remaining silent at the moment, this is not the same case within Sir Keir Starmer’s Labor Government. The Minister of Culture, Lisa Nandy, has closed ranks, recalling that “the BBC It is not simply a station, it is a national institution that belongs to all of us.” He has also noted that “it is by far the most widely used and trusted source of news in the United Kingdom at a time when the lines are blurring between fact and opinion, between news and controversy.
“It is the light in the beacon for people here and in the rest of the world,” Nandy continued, while although he stressed that “it is independent of the Government”, in this specific crisis “it has been working side by side with the BBC“.
