US president Donald Trump has threatened a lawsuit of up to $5 billion against the BBC. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
US president Donald Trump said on Friday he would likely sue the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) next week for as much as $5 billion after the broadcaster admitted it wrongly edited a video of a speech he gave but insisted there was no legal basis for his claim.
The BBC has been plunged into its biggest crisis in decades after two senior leaders resigned following accusations of bias, including over the editing of Mr Trump’s speech on January 6th, 2021, when his supporters stormed the Capitol.
Mr Trump’s lawy
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