A misleading clip that sparked the crisis… Trump demands "BBC" With compensation of $10 billion

US President Donald Trump yesterday, Monday, filed a lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), demanding compensation amounting to $10 billion for accusing it of defamation by creating a misleading video clip, according to what was stated in a court document.

The lawsuit filed by Trump before a federal court in Florida and seen by Agence France-Presse, demands…"Compensation of no less than $5 billion" On both charges of defamation and violating a law in Florida regarding deceptive and unfair business practices.

The 79-year-old Republican president told reporters on Monday that the BBC showed him speaking other than what he said, stressing "They literally put words in my mouth"
Trump announced a few weeks ago that he would demand compensation from the BBC "It ranges between one billion and five billion dollars" For both charges.

The British Broadcasting Corporation, whose reputation and audience extend beyond the borders of the United Kingdom, is facing a crisis since the edited clip was broadcast on its leading news programme. "panorama"

Shortly before the 2024 US presidential elections, the program showed separate clips from a speech delivered by Trump on December 6, 2021, which were synthesized in a way that suggested that he explicitly called on his supporters to attack the headquarters of Congress in Washington.

On that day, hundreds of his supporters stormed the Capitol building, motivated by his baseless accusations of fraud during the elections in which he was defeated, seeking to prevent Congress from certifying Joe’s victory. Biden for the presidency.

A spokesman for Trump’s lawyer said in a call with Agence France-Presse on Monday that "The once-respected and now discredited BBC defamed President Trump by deliberately, in bad faith and deceptively altering his rhetoric with the express aim of interfering in the 2024 presidential election.".

He added "The BBC has a long history of misleading its audiences in its coverage of President Trump, in service of its left-wing political agenda".

The case in the United Kingdom sparked debate about how the Broadcasting Corporation operates and its impartiality, at a time when the group has witnessed in recent years a number of issues and scandals.

It prompted the resignation of its general director, Tim Duffy, and its news director, Deborah Torres.

The chairman of the BBC, Samir Shah, sent a letter of apology to Trump, without succeeding in quelling his anger. But he denied the defamation accusations and expressed his determination to fight any lawsuit.

Trump’s lawsuit argues that the BBC, despite its apologies, "She showed no real remorse for her actions and did not initiate significant structural reforms to prevent future journalistic abuses"

Trump filed lawsuits against American media outlets and threatened to sue others, and some of them paid large sums of money to settle the dispute and halt prosecutions against them.

Since his return to the White House in January, the president also launched numerous verbal attacks that amounted to insults against journalists representing media outlets he considered hostile, and he brought content creators and influencers supportive of him into the White House.

Among these new invitees is a network "GB News" British Conservative close to party leader "Reform UK" Anti-immigration Nigel Farage.