Donald Trump files $10 billion lawsuit against BBC over ‘misleading’ speech edit as he makes bold new claim
Gerrard Kaonga
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Donald Trump has made a new claim in a speech after confirming that he would be suing the BBC for making an edit of a speech he made.
In November, Donald Trump vowed that he would sue the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) after it was revealed that they had edited a speech he made before the US capitol riots of January 6 2021.
Critics have argued that the edited version was ‘misleading’, whereas Trump’s legal counsel Alejandro Brito went as far to say it was ‘false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory'. The edited clip was shown in the documentary Trump: A Second Chance? and made Trump look like he was seemingly encouraging an attack by his supporters on the Capitol by splicing up clips.
In the aired clip, Trump said: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol... and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell."
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But what the Republican president said, in full, was: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women."
On Monday, Trump filed his lawsuit in federal court in Miami and is seeking ‘damages in an amount not less than $5,000,000,000' for each of two counts against the United Kingdom broadcaster for alleged defamation and violation of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
However, in a speech to the White House, he made the additional claim that the BBC had used AI to get him ‘say thing that he never said’.
Speaking at the White House on Monday about the lawsuit, Trump said: “In a little while you’ll be seeing that I am suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth, literally.
“They put words in my mouth, they had me saying things that I never said coming out, I guess they used AI or something.
“We will be bringing that lawsuit, a lot of people have been asking when are you bringing that lawsuit.
“Even the media can’t believe that one, they actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with January 6, that I didn’t say.
“And the beautiful words that I said, right, the beautiful words, talking about patriotism and all of the good things that I said, they didn’t say that.
“But they put terrible words. They actually had me speaking with words that I never said and they got caught.
“Because I believe someone at the BBC said this is so bad it has to be reported, that is called fake news, so we will be filing that suit probably this afternoon or tomorrow morning.”
A spokesperson for the BBC spoke to LADbible Group and said: "As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case. We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings."