BBC edited Trump’s January 6 speech
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has vowed to fight Trump’s $10 million lawsuit against the broadcaster for defamation and violations of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act after they were caught deceptively editing Trump’s January 6 speech to make it appear he was calling for violence.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump told reporters on Monday that he would imminently be filing a defamation lawsuit against the BBC after announcing his intention to do so last month.
“In a little while, you’ll be seeing, I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth,” Trump said in the Oval Office.
“They actually have me speaking with words that I never said, and they got caught because I believe somebody at BBC said this is so bad it has to be reported. That’s called fake news.
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He went on to announce the massive lawsuit for defamation and the BBC’s violation of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (FDUTPA), totaling a whopping $10 billion.
“Defendants have violated the FDUTPA by engaging in unfair methods of competition, unconscionable acts or practices and/or unfair or deceptive acts or practices by, inter alia, intentionally and maliciously seeking to completely mislead their viewers by splicing together two separate parts of President Trump’s Speech, while omitting other critical parts of the Speech in such a manner as to intentionally, falsely, maliciously, and defamatorily change the meaning of what President Trump said,” the 33 page lawsuit filed in the US Southern District of Florida argues.
“The false, deceptive, malicious, and defamatory statements and depictions of and about President Trump, were, intentionally, with actual malice, and without privilege, published in the Panorama Documentary,” it further reads.
The BBC doctored footage of Trump’s speech at the White House Ellipse on January 6, 2021, to make it sound like he was inciting his supporters to riot and “fight like hell” after walking to the Capitol during a Panorama documentary that aired before the 2024 election.
But Trump actually said, We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave Senators and Congressmen and Women.” For anyone who was there, it can also be remembered that the President repeatedly called for his supporters to march “peacefully and patriotically.”
Below is a side-by-side clip of the edited version of his speech versus what he actually said:
While the BBC concedes in an article-style press release that Trump said “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol” roughly 50 minutes before he said “We fight like hell,” and that their edits gave the “mistaken impression” of a “direct call for violent action,” they maintain that there is no basis for his lawsuit.
They think they can lie with impunity.
Per the BBC:
The BBC apologised to him last month, but rejected his demands for compensation and disagreed there was a “basis for a defamation claim”.
Trump’s legal team accused the BBC of defaming him by “intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively doctoring his speech”.
A BBC spokesperson said: “As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case.”
They added: “We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings.”
This is a developing story.
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