BBC apologizes to Trump for Jan. 6 speech edit but denies basis for defamation claim

Published November 13, 2025 6:36pm ET



The BBC issued an apology to President Donald Trump on Thursday over the network’s alleged deceptive editing of Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021, while contesting Trump’s basis for a defamation claim over the matter.

Trump threatened to file a $1 billion lawsuit against the network over the edit of his speech, with his lawyers giving BBC counsel a deadline of Friday at 5 p.m. to retract “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” about the president.

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