BBC vows to defend itself from Trump's $10 billion lawsuit

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London — The BBC said Tuesday that it would support itself successful tribunal aft President Trump sued the British nationalist broadcaster for defamation and violating Florida authorities practices instrumentality successful narration to a documentary that edited unneurotic abstracted parts of his Jan.6, 2021 code successful Washington.

Mr. Trump is seeking $10 cardinal successful damages with his lawsuit, filed Monday successful the Southern District of Florida.

In its statement, the BBC said it would "be defending this case," but would not beryllium commenting further connected the ongoing ineligible proceedings.

In his complaint, Mr. Trump's attorneys impeach the BBC of publishing "a false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction" of him successful the BBC documentary that aired successful the U.K. a week earlier the 2024 election.

The suit claims the BBC, "intentionally and maliciously sought to afloat mislead its viewers" by "splicing together" 2 clips from the aforesaid code Mr. Trump gave to supporters successful Washington earlier rioters overran the Capitol building. The 2 portions of the code that were stuck unneurotic successful the documentary were really delivered by Mr. Trump astir an hr apart, the suit alleges.

The ailment accuses the BBC of violating the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, "by engaging successful unfair methods of competition, unconscionable acts oregon practices and/or unfair oregon deceptive acts oregon practices."

Mr. Trump had antecedently threatened to writer the BBC for $1 cardinal unless it retracted the documentary, issued an apology, and "appropriately" compensated him.

In November, the BBC issued an apology and published a retraction, but said successful a connection that it "strongly disagree[s] that there's a ground for a deflation claim."

"BBC Chair Samir Shah has separately sent a idiosyncratic missive to the White House making wide to President Trump that helium and the Corporation are atrocious for the edit of the President's code connected 6 January 2021, which featured successful the programme," the BBC Press Office said successful November. "The BBC has nary plans to rebroadcast the documentary 'Trump: A Second Chance?' connected immoderate BBC platforms."

BBC Director-General Tim Davie and the network's caput of quality Deborah Turness both resigned implicit the controversy.