Why is Donald Trump suing the BBC? [QuyI9H1QALC]
US President Donald Trump's multi-billion dollar lawsuit against the BBC has been scheduled to go to trial in February 2027, according to court documents. The lawsuit, which was filed in Florida, accuses the BBC of "intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively doctoring" a speech Trump gave on 6 January 2021, before the US Capitol riots. The BBC previously apologised to Trump for the way Panorama edited the speech, but disagreed that there was a basis for a defamation claim and rejected his demands for compensation. What was in the BBC Panorama documentary about Trump? The Panorama documentary, called Trump: A Second Chance?, was broadcast on 28 October 2024, just days before the US presidential election. In his speech, Trump told a Washington DC crowd: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women." More than 50 minutes later in the same speech, he said: "And we fight. We fight like hell." In the Panorama programme, a clip showed him as saying: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol... and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell." Criticism of the edit emerged more than a year later when a leaked internal memo was published by the Telegraph newspaper. This led to the resignations of the BBC's director general, Tim Davie, and its head of news, Deborah Turness. BBC chairman Samir Shah apologised for the edit, which he described as an "error of judgement".