Republican slams 'fraudulent' BBC with spine-tingling warning - 'Trump will definitely sue!'

In the sit-down Oval Office interview on Friday, Mr Trump told GB News' Bev Turner that he will pursue legal action against the British broadcaster for the way it spliced and edited the speech he delivered on January 6, 2021, which made it appear as if he had called for his supporters to storm the Capitol.

The Panorama documentary edited clips together which were filmed almost an hour apart, which seemed to suggest that he told his supporters to "fight like hell".

"I would take Donald Trump very seriously, as we know with CBS," the Republican told Charlie and Olivia.

"He actually sued them for $10billion, took the lawsuit up to $20billion, that ultimately settled for $16million. He will definitely sue the BBC. And I believe corrupt is maybe even too soft.

The American media company Paramount Global forked out $16million in a settlement with the President after an interview with Kamala Harris that seemed to "tip the scales in favour of the Democratic party".

Ms Notzon said: "I think fraudulent is probably a more applicable term when it comes to the way they deliberately doctored and spliced the language to make him look like he incited violence, and as a result of his words, that the people were marching to the Capitol."

She added that there was "no doubt that the BBC was wrong" following its grovelling apology to Mr Trump on Thursday, which cited an "error of judgement".

In the world-exclusive GB News interview, Mr Trump took aim at a litany of issues within the UK and beyond, from the extent of illegal immigration across the continent to Sir Sadiq Khan's mayoralty.

Speaking about how Sir Keir Starmer will move forward with international relations with the world leader, Ms Notzon said: "Well, I think it's very important that the issue is addressed, that it was misleading and that it was deliberate because this could happen to UK elections.

"President Trump mentioned in that interview maybe they're doing it to Nigel Farage, given that Reform is in the lead right now.

"So it's very important for the people of the United Kingdom to be able to have faith in their broadcasters, not to try to rewrite the words in their leaders' mouths."

Although the BBC said sorry over the scandal that led to the resignations of director-general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness, Mr Trump ploughed on with plans for the eye-watering lawsuit.

Speaking exclusively to GB News Bev Turner, he said: "I'm not looking to get into lawsuits, but I think I have an obligation to do it.

"This was so egregious. If you don't do it, you don't stop it from happening again with other people. I'd like to find out why they did it."

"They took my words - my mouth - and they had different words coming out to make it sound bad.

"I made a beautiful statement and made it into a not beautiful statement," he told GB News.

"You know, the word fake is one thing, but this is beyond fake. This is corrupt what they did."

Last week, The Telegraph revealed that the BBC had "doctored" a second clip of Mr Trump shown on BBC Newsnight.

Similarly edited as the footage in the Panorama documentary was, the video was spliced to make it appear that Mr Trump was calling for his followers to incite violence on January 6.

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