Donald Trump has accused the BBC of being "worse than CBS" as he spoke to GB News' Beverly Turner for an exclusive sit-down interview.
The President said the broadcaster has "manipulated his words" after BBC Newsnight stitched together sections of two speeches nearly an hour apart, creating the impression he had delivered an inflammatory address moments before the Capitol unrest.
In a world-exclusive interview at the White House, the US President told GB News that he will continue pursuing legal action against the corporation as it is his "obligation".
He explained: "I made a beautiful statement, and they made it into a not beautiful statement.
The US President told GB News that he will continue pursuing legal action against the corporation as it is his 'obligation'
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"Just before this interview [With GB News,] I was told that they did it again on Newsnight."
He explained: "I have just settled with 60 minutes in New York, CBS because they had Kamala on their news channel the night or two nights before the election. Her answer was so bad it was election interference.
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"That's how bad it was," Mr Trump added, "That's not as bad as what BBC did. What they did is worse."
Donald Trump has long railed against what he calls the "fake news" media.
In July, US media giant Paramount Global agreed to pay $16million to settle a legal row with the President over a CBS 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.
Mr Trump sued last October, claiming the network had deceptively edited the broadcast with his election rival to "tip the scales in favour of the Democratic Party".
The US President gave an exclusive interview to Bev Turner
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Speaking to Britain's News Channel last night, Mr Trump explained that he will not back down from the lawsuit even though he has received a "very nice" letter of apology from the BBC.
Before leaving the BBC in June, independent external adviser to the corporation's editorial standards committee Michael Prescott wrote a letter to the board highlighting "serious and systemic" editorial bias within the broadcaster.
The editing of Mr Trump's speech was an example he gave to support his comments.
Mr Prescott said editorial managers "refused to accept there had been a breach of standards" in the letter that was published by the Daily Telegraph last week.
The BBC now accepts that they pieced together the footage and gave a “mistaken impression” that he had directly called for violence, but despite apologising to President Trump, the public broadcaster said that they "strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim".
The corporation has denied the January 6 speech was deliberately altered to paint Mr Trump in a bad light and has refused to pay compensation.
President Trump told Bev: "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."
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