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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

In a complaint filed on Monday evening, Trump sought $5bn in damages each on two counts: alleging that the BBC defamed him, and that violated Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, when it broadcast an edited version of his Jan 6, 2021 speech.

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BBC vows to defend $10bn lawsuit from Donald Trump

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-- The Guardian (@theguardian.com) Dec 16, 2025 at 5:51 AM

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What a fat ------- -----.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-15 11:22 PM | Reply

What does your neighbor's pet (probably the only ----- you've ever seen) have to do with it?

#2 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-15 11:33 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

You can't defame a pig.

I'm really tired of Trump abusing our court system to harass people.

#3 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-16 12:02 AM | Reply

abusing our court system to harass people.

I believe the term is "Lawfare". It used to be bad, but those were (D)ifferent times.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-16 12:12 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

More Kabuki Theater from Trumpy.

I would hope that the BBC stands firm and make Trumpy prove his outlandish and frivolous claims. In court. Under oath. The story wasn't even broadcast in America! How could it have affected the election that Trumpy actually won? Good luck proving that nonsense. He only even heard about because they apologized for any mistakes.

Not a lawyer but ain't that also opening up Trumpy to discovery requests?

Meaning that the BBC can demand documents, communications, and testimony about his claims and damages, potentially revealing more about his finances and conduct, similar to other cases but with unique aspects given his public role and previous gag orders and frivolous demands in other lawsuits.

Gonna need more popcorn soon.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-16 10:43 AM | Reply

"Not a lawyer but ain't that also opening up Trumpy to discovery requests?"

They would likely be limited the specifics of the lawsuit allegation, which has to do with two comments that he made about an hour apart being spliced together to give the impression that he something he didn't actually say in that specific speech.

#6 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-16 10:51 AM | Reply

^^^ Edit

"Not a lawyer but ain't that also opening up Trumpy to discovery requests?"

They would likely be limited the specifics of the lawsuit allegation, which has to do with two comments that he made about an hour apart being spliced together to give the impression that he *said something he didn't actually say in that specific speech.

#7 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-16 10:52 AM | Reply

---- off Nazi dumbass.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-16 03:59 PM | Reply

Dummkopf Trumpf has yet to pay for his losing his lawsuit in the UK over the Steele Dossier: www.dailymail.co.uk

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-16 04:05 PM | Reply

Five billion in damages for... what exactly?

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-17 11:17 AM | Reply

The US president alleged the broadcaster "intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively" edited his 6 January speech before the insurrection, in an episode of Panorama just over a year ago.

The Panorama edit, taken from sections of his speech almost an hour apart, suggested Trump told the crowd: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell."

[The edited sections of his speech omitted words in which Trump also called for peaceful protest.]

In Trump's complaint against the BBC, his legal team writes: "The BBC, faced with overwhelming and justifiable outrage on both sides of the Atlantic, has publicly admitted its staggering breach of journalistic ethics, and apologized, but has made no showing of actual remorse for its wrongdoing nor meaningful institutional changes to prevent future journalistic abuses.

#11 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-17 11:53 AM | Reply

Since the allegations are specifically about public comments that Trump made, I think the BBC has a lot more to lose in discovery than he does.

#12 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-17 11:55 AM | Reply

BBC airs clips of Trump's actual words and Trump cries he didn't say it. This is no different than him crying about reporters asking him about his statement that he would release the videos of his administration murdering shipwrecked boaters and just 5 days later claiming he never said that.

Trump is a liar and BBC should countersue but they won't because the UK Prime Minister is afraid to stand up against fascism that has taken hold in the US.

#13 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-12-17 11:59 AM | Reply

" Trump never said that."

I just quoted your own words.

#14 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-17 12:04 PM | Reply

" Trump is
the UK Prime Minister"

Cool story, bro.

#15 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-17 12:06 PM | Reply

"the US should execute homeless people and bomb the UN Headquarters."

POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE AT 2025-12-09 05:37 PM

You actually wrote that.

#16 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-17 12:12 PM | Reply

The Panorama edit, taken from sections of his speech almost an hour apart, suggested Trump told the crowd: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell."

^
I don't see where the edit changed the meaning.

Is the complaint that Trump suffers harm to his reputation, because he wasn't there with them?

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-17 12:17 PM | Reply

On a related tangent, the BBC have apparently the lost the rights to the first four episodes of Doctor Who that were first broadcast in 1963, due to a dispute with the writer's estate. The writer's son was asking for an extremely high amount of money for them to be able to repeat or release the episodes on their streaming site. Not as much as what Trump is asking, but they said no. Now he's apparently threatening to sell (or maybe even give) the episode rights to Russia, to get back at the BBC.

#18 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-17 08:21 PM | Reply

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