Fox News media reporters Brian Flood and Joseph Wulfsohn reported President Donald Trump filed a “monster $10 billion lawsuit” on Monday against the taxpayer-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for its 2024 "Panorama" documentary that blatantly distorted his comments on January 6, 2021 – merging together comments that were made nearly an hour apart, making him appear he was calling for violence at the Capitol.
"We're gonna walk down to the Capitol. And I'll be there with you. And we fight — we fight like hell," the documentary showed Trump saying.
In reality, Trump said, "We're gonna walk down to the Capitol. And we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong."
It wasn't until 54 minutes later that Trump called on his supporters to "fight like hell" for an accurate vote count.
Trump sued the BBC for both defamation and for a violation of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for $5 billion apiece, as the president is seeking $10 billion total. The suit, filed in the Southern District of Florida Federal Court, was filed in a personal capacity and names BBC and BBC studios productions as defendants.
Trump’s legal team claimed the defendants "timed the publication of the Panorama Documentary to be close in time to the 2024 Presidential Election" and the value of the president’s "personal brand alone is reasonably estimated to be worth tens of billions of dollars."
The lawsuit argues: "The BBC, faced with overwhelming and justifiable outrage on both sides of the Atlantic, has publicly admitted its staggering breach of journalistic ethics, and apologized, but has made no showing of actual remorse for its wrongdoing nor meaningful institutional changes to prevent future journalistic abuses."
A BBC spokesperson told Fox News: "As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case. We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings."
The mangled quote, which blew up in the British press, led to the resignations of BBC News CEO Deborah Turness and BBC director-general Tim Davie, and then a panic over the sinking brand.
The lefties are also concerned about the re-evaluation of the BBC's license-fee system of funding "public" media. British households pay £174.50 ($230) a year for BBC shows and services, which leads to conservative complaints about involuntarily supporting anti-conservative media.
Former UK prime minister Liz Truss wrote at the time the scandal erupted: "I'm glad the US President and the rest of the world are seeing the BBC for what it is. Its failure to tell the truth on everything from transgender ideology to economics to Gaza has done huge damage to politics and government in this country. This should be the end of nationalised broadcasting."
