BBC ‘determined to fight’ Donald Trump’s $5 billion defamation threat, calls case baseless
Britain’s BBC is determined to fight any legal action filed by US President Donald Trump and sees no basis for a defamation case over its editing of one of his speeches, its chair said on Monday.
Trump said on Friday he was likely to sue the BBC this week for up to $5 billion after the broadcaster spliced together separate excerpts of a speech on January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the Capitol.
