The US president filed the lawsuit in December in Florida, accusing the British public broadcaster of defamation and violating a trade practices law
A BBC will ask the Court of USA what for misleadingly editing one of his speeches, according to court documents. The US president filed the lawsuit in December in Florida, accusing the British public broadcaster of defamation and violating a trade practices law.
As a result, Trump seeks compensation of US$5 billion (R$26.8 billion) for each of the two charges. The BBC aired on its Panorama news program, shortly before the 2024 US presidential election, excerpts from a speech by Donald Trump from January 6, 2021. The excerpts were edited so that the Republican appeared to explicitly incite his supporters to attack the Capitol in Washington.
The BBC’s lawyers have until March 17 to present this request, and will argue that Donald Trump “cannot prove” that the documentary, broadcast outside the United States, “caused him legally recognizable harm”. The Republican president “was re-elected on November 5, 2024, after the documentary was shown.” Trump “won Florida by an impressive margin of 13 percentage points, improving his 2020 and 2016 results,” the lawyers emphasize in the documents, arguing that their lawsuit is “inadmissible.”
*With information from AFP
