Donald Trump demands BBC retract doc, threatens $1B lawsuit over Jan. 6 comments edit
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Via: vic-eldred • last year • 19 commentsBy: Dominick Mastrangelo (The Hill)
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President Trump's attorneys are threatening to sue the BBC over how it edited a video of him speaking to a crowd of his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.
In a letter sent to the BBC and given to Fox News Digital, Trump's attorneys demanded the broadcaster retract a documentary that was highlighted in reporting by the Telegraph and shows Trump saying, "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell."
A full version of Trump's remarks show him telling supporters to march to the Capitol "peacefully and patriotically."
"Failure to comply will leave President Trump with no choice but to pursue any and all legal rights and remedies available to recover damages for the overwhelming financial and reputational harm that the BBC has caused him to suffer, with all rights and remedies being expressly reserved by President Trump," the letter shared with Fox said.
Trump's attorneys said if no action is taken by Nov. 14, "President Trump will be left with no alternative but to enforce his legal and equitable rights, all of which are expressly reserved and are not waived, including by filing legal action for no less than $1,000,000,000 (One Billion Dollars) in damages."
The edit has led to the resignation of two top officials at the BBC and sparked an apology from its chair, who vowed in a letter to British lawmakers to "ensure that the BBC continues to take the necessary actions in the future to ensure the BBC retains the trust and confidence of the public we serve."
"We will review the letter and respond directly in due course," a BBC spokesperson told The Hill on Monday.
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I hope he gets every penny, plus the apology.
Every penny of what? He is claiming “overwhelming financial harm.” Would you like to define that for us?
I hope he does win the billion and they pay it to him in penny's, each one shoved up his ass one at a time by his prison bunk mate Bruce that he ends up serving a double life sentence with after all the shit Trump has ever done comes to light, because Karma is a bitch. That would almost be justice for what he's done to our country. Almost.
I've got a better idea, fuck Trump.
He couldn't have cared less whether the mob was peaceful or violent, legal or illegal. He wanted them to help him out by delaying or stopping the electoral vote count. Worrying about how it was to be done is for losers.
Accountability is for losers?...
You must be favor then of holding Trump accountable for trying to steal the 2020 election.
Oh but he did. He said go peacefully. You know, that was the part you always cut out.
The one or two times he mentioned peace is quantifiably negligible to the numerous exhortations he and others gave to fight like hell or you won't have a country.
Only delusional people see it otherwise. I kinda wish that the Secret Service would have let him go with his hord of lunatic followers so that his impotence and complicity could not be questioned.
Once should be enough for a decent human being.
I guess the crowd wasn't decent.
Ask a symbolic logician to analyze what he said. Ask a person off the street. The result: Fight like hell or you won't have a country.
As opposed to an existential threat to democracy ... or a wanna be Hitler? .. and I think I have heard and read a whole lot of fight like hell as cities and neighborhoods have burned... and there was NO one from the right doing it..!
Your words are hypocritical BS .. !
Perhaps it would have been better if the secret service had let Trump go .. at least then the hypocrisy and creativity (from the left) describing the events that happened could be exposed ... January 6 was a nightmare.. I sat and watched it unfold .. my heart broke seeing the events of that day - sad to see that so many people felt that strongly to go that far ... but an insurrection it was not.
In 2020 homeless people were allowed to cast a ballot using a street corner as an address .. Trump should have prob done what 'you guys' hero Zelensky has done in stopping elections ... OOOOO but wait, Zelensky is a super star for stopping elections.. because you can ignore that, he is at war (right)? ....and Trump is Hitler for never stopping an election, he is just a made-up existential threat to democracy for doing what exactly..?
Colour me gobsmacked! My mother, may she rest in peace would be saying [...][✘]
Whatever it turned into was a far cry from the 2020 riots that went largely unpunished.
I love you too.
Go for it! Let’s see the financial harm. I can’t wait for Trump’s financial dealings to be made evidence in a courtroom.
And it is literally not possible to damage his reputation any more than Trump has already done with his own speech and behavior.
PLEASE let’s have a trial! I cannot wait!
Yes, the BBC engaged in editorial malpractice. Yes, demanding a retraction and apology would be appropriate. But the only obvious conclusion is that Trump was completely unaware of the edited video in the Panorama broadcast before this controversy erupted.
Trump playing the whiny victim card this late in the game is so very DEI. Man up, Buttercup.
. If great Britian were still a democracy I’d say it’s insane viewers are forced to subdize it, but given what’s happened to the country, it makes perfect sense
Um, it is a democracy.
They arrest 12:000 people a year for speech crimes. Cant have a democracy when you can’t speak freely and the state sponsored information source is racist propaganda.
Here we have people supporting laws making it legal to run over protesters in the streets and/or wear masks during protests precisely to stifle their free speech. We have 'free speech' zones out of site of politicians on campaign stops. We've had thousands arrested and released with no charges, because they did nothing wrong, but piss someone off. Let's clean our own house before we start shitting in someone else's.