WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.
The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump,” calling it “a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence” the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
It accused the BBC of “splicing together two entirely separate parts of President Trump’s speech on January 6, 2021” in order to ”intentionally misrepresent the meaning of what President Trump said.”
The lawsuit, filed in a Florida court, seeks $5 billion in damages for defamation and $5 billion for unfair trade practices.
Trumpet is going to hold up trade deals now. Just to be petulant. Starmer is going to have a quiet word in the BBC’s ear.
Already is.
FWIW I don’t think we should be ‘building closer trade ties’ with the US right now anyway.
There you go 😂.
And yes I agree. I don’t think we should either. But sadly this isn’t how the British government thinks. We’d be far better aligning with European interests and slowly extricating ourselves from US interference.
Starmer can say what he likes, but any settlement will come from taxpayers. I can’t imagine there is any public support for giving money to Trump for some imagined slight.
Yes but put yourself in the spineless shoes of Starmer. Ten billion from the public via the BBC in exchange for much more lucrative trade deals. Net win.
This is how these people think.
I think you mean ten billiong from the public via the BBC in exchange for literally nothing because the man is a master of folding while getting nothing in return.
Unfortunately no. Licence fee is not technically a tax. More importantly many Brits are not paying it now as they just do not bother with live TV.
As such the likely hood is. And case will bankrupt and extinguish the BBC.
Technically it’s a hypothecated tax.
I have a new word!