Trump Threatens Billion-Dollar Lawsuit Against BBC for Misleading Speech Edit

Nov 12, 2025 04:48 pm CST

US President Donald Trump has indicated he feels "obligated" to sue the BBC over a misleadingly edited speech that suggested he encouraged violence before the 2021 Capitol incident. The controversy has already led to high-profile resignations at the British broadcaster, which has issued a public apology for the editing that omitted contextual statements from Trump's original speech.