Trump is fed up. He believes he’s been wronged by yet another media outlet.
And Donald Trump concocts a brutal lawsuit targeting this one media organization.
President Trump has unleashed a massive $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC, slamming the British network for twisting his words in a blatant smear job over his January 6, 2021, speech.
The suit zeros in on a 2024 BBC documentary that chopped up Trump’s remarks, making it look like he directly egged on the chaos at the Capitol when his supporters stormed in.
“I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth, literally,” Trump told reporters on Monday. “They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with January 6th that I didn’t say.”
His lawyers dropped the bombshell 33-page complaint in a Miami federal court, ripping into the documentary Trump: A Second Chance? as nothing short of a dirty ploy to meddle in the 2024 election.
They’re demanding $5 billion straight up for defamation, plus another $5 billion for trampling on Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
Just last month, the BBC coughed up a formal apology, though they stubbornly denied any real defamation. Their director-general and news CEO both bailed out, quitting their posts.
BBC chairman Samir Shah brushed it off as an “error of judgment,” but that’s not cutting it for those who see it as deliberate sabotage.
The heart of the outrage? The doc pieced together this mangled quote from Trump to the rally crowd: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you and we fight. We fight like h*ll, and if you don’t fight like h*ll, you’re not gonna have a country anymore.”
In reality, that was a Frankenstein edit from three separate parts of his speech, skipping over a huge nearly hour-long chunk to glue it all into one inflammatory line.
Crucially, they axed Trump’s call to act “peacefully,” painting a totally false picture of his intent that day.
On top of that, the BBC pulled a sneaky move with footage of the Proud Boys heading to the Capitol before Trump’s talk even started, editing it to suggest his words lit the fuse for their march.
Trump’s attorneys are pushing for a jury trial to let everyday Americans decide on this media malpractice.
The BBC is trying to dodge the heat by claiming the show never aired in the U.S. and isn’t on their streaming platforms.
But Trump’s side isn’t buying it—they argue U.S. folks could still catch it via BritBox subscriptions or by hopping on a VPN, giving them solid grounds to sue.
This legal blitz fits right into Trump’s ongoing war against biased media giants, like his recent salvos against the Wall Street Journal over a bogus story about a birthday card tied to Jeffrey Epstein, and a whopping $15 billion claim against the New York Times for their slanted 2024 campaign coverage.
Adding fuel to the fire, Trump scored big wins lately, pocketing a $16 million settlement from CBS News after calling out their shady 60 Minutes edit that polished up Kamala Harris’s image.
He also hauled in $15 million from ABC News for George Stephanopoulos’s false jab that a jury found him liable for r*pe in the E. Jean Carroll case, when it was actually s*xual abuse.
These victories show Trump’s not backing down from holding fake news peddlers accountable, striking blows for truth in a sea of leftist spin.
As the BBC suit ramps up, it’s a stark reminder that even foreign outlets can’t escape justice when they target America’s leader with lies.
