US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he might file a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against BBC after the British network admitted to an error in editing a speech related to January 6, 2021. "We will demand an amount between 1 billion and 5 billion dollars," the head of state said to the press group that accompanied him as he boarded the presidential plane in Washington before departing for Florida. The Republican concluded that "I have to do it" and hinted that the legal action could be filed next week. This week, BBC acknowledged that its Panorama program used a "misleading" edit of the speech, which took place on the day of the violent assault on the Capitol, by joining fragments from different moments that could alter its meaning. Trump's legal team argues that the edit omitted the phrase in which he asked his supporters to march "peacefully and patriotically," which, they claim, damaged his reputation by linking him to the violent acts of that day. The British network apologized and called the case a "judgment error," although it asserts that there is no legal basis for a defamation lawsuit related to the context of January 6.
