1 week ago - Donald Trump could be forced to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth if he goes ahead with his $10billion lawsuit against the BBC. Lawyers for the broadcaster are said to be considering launching an aggressive defence.

1 week ago - President Trump sued the BBC for $10 billion on Monday evening over the editing in a documentary that the British broadcaster said had left the “mistaken impression” that he called for violent action before the storming of the U.S. Capitol.

1 week ago - "We will be defending this case", the BBC repeated after the $5bn (£3.7bn) lawsuit was filed over an edit of Donald Trump's 6 January 2021 speech in a Panorama documentary.

1 week ago - A spokesman for Trump's legal team said in a statement the BBC "has a long pattern of deceiving its audience in coverage of President Trump, all in service of its own leftist political agenda". The lawsuit poses one of the biggest threats to the British Broadcasting Corporation in its 103-year history, and has been seized on by critics and rivals who object to its perceived liberal stance and its funding through the licence.

1 week ago - The lawsuit, which has been filed in Florida, demands $5bn (£3.7) and accuses the BBC of "intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively doctoring" Trump's speech.

3 weeks ago - Claiming he was defamed by the deceptive editing of one of his speeches in a 2024 documentary, the US president is seeking between $1 billion and $5 billion in damages from the British Broadcasting Corporation, observes Le Monde columnist Alain ...

1 week ago - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices.

November 15, 2025 - US President Donald Trump has said he will take legal action against the BBC over how his speech was edited by Panorama, after the corporation apologised but refused to compensate him.

November 14, 2025 - President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC.

1 week ago - Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the BBC over its editing of a speech he made to supporters in Washington before they stormed the US Capitol in 2021, requesting up to $10bn in damages.

1 week ago - Threshold questions would be whether the BBC has actively sought to establish a presence in Florida and whether people in the state watched the documentary and felt deceived by it, legal experts said. Trump's lawsuit says the BBC has an office in Coral Gables, Florida, maintains webpages devoted to Florida news and sent film crews to Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate to gather footage for the documentary.

1 week ago - President Donald Trump sued the BBC on Monday for defamation over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the US Capitol, opening an international front in his fight against media coverage he deems untrue ...

November 12, 2025 - In a letter to the BBC, Trump's legal team demanded three things - to issue a "full and fair retraction" of the programme, an apology and that the BBC "appropriately compensate President Trump for the harm caused". But experts on US media and defamation law say the president faces significant obstacles to winning such enormous damages from a lawsuit against the BBC, partly due to strong US press freedom laws.