You mess with the bull...
You get the horns.
Yes, President Trump filed a $5 billion lawsuit against the BBC for deceptively editing his speech from January 6, 2021.
He teased this yesterday:
Congrats, BBC! You're the next contestant on Who Wants to Pay Trump Billions of Dollars?
More on the lawsuit from Politico:
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Miami, complains that the BBC 'maliciously' strung together two comments Trump made more than 54 minutes apart in order to convey the impression that he'd urged his supporters to engage in violence as electoral votes were set to be tabulated by Congress.
'It would have been impossible for BBC's journalists and producers to splice together two distinct parts of the Speech from nearly 55 minutes apart unless they were acting intentionally,' the suit claims. 'Such a dramatic distortion could never have occurred by accident.'
Though the BBC publicly apologized for the editing, Trump was not willing to just let it slide.
(Is anyone surprised?)
Ed Davey, the leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats, nearly shed a tear for the BBC when he found out about the lawsuit:
While the president's recent lawsuit against CNN was tossed by an appeals court, he has racked up an impressive list of similar suits against other media companies.
Trump has also, however, reached multimillion-dollar settlements with ABC and CBS in lawsuits he brought accusing them of false reporting or deceptive editing. Trump's suits against The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal remain pending.
The BBC is sure to put up a fight, but Trump will do everything he can to hold those sneaky Brits accountable.
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