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President Donald Trump scored a significant legal victory Monday in his $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC after a federal judge allowed him to amend his complaint over the broadcaster’s controversial editing of his January 6, 2021 speech.
U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman granted Trump’s request for leave to file a First Amended Complaint in Trump v. British Broadcasting Corporation, rejecting the BBC’s effort to block the move.
The ruling also rendered the BBC’s existing motion to dismiss the case “moot,” forcing the broadcaster to respond to Trump’s revised allegations once they are filed.
Trump sued the BBC in December in his personal capacity, accusing the broadcaster of defamation and violating Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
He is seeking $5 billion under each claim, for a total of $10 billion in damages.
Judge Rejects BBC Challenge to Trump’s Amended Lawsuit
Trump’s attorneys sought permission to revise the original complaint, while the BBC argued that the president had missed the applicable deadline.
The broadcaster also accused Trump’s legal team of using the amendment strategically to avoid financial disclosures.
Altman rejected the BBC’s objections and gave Trump permission to move forward with the revised complaint.
Trump’s legal team celebrated the decision as a major step forward in the case.
“Today’s strong and thoughtful ruling is a major win for President Trump’s powerhouse lawsuit against the formerly respected and now disgraced BBC, which defamed President Trump by intentionally, maliciously and deceptively doctoring his speech in a brazen attempt to interfere in the 2024 Presidential Election,” a spokesman for Trump’s legal team said.
“President Trump is holding the leftist BBC, along with all of its comrades in the mainstream media, accountable for their peddling of Fake News through deception and maliciously defamatory conduct.”
BBC Documentary Spliced Trump Remarks Together
The lawsuit centers on the BBC’s 2024 “Panorama” documentary, “Trump: A Second Chance?”
The documentary featured an edited version of Trump’s January 6, 2021, speech that combined remarks delivered nearly an hour apart.
The resulting sequence made it appear that Trump told supporters they were going to walk to the Capitol and “fight like hell” as part of a continuous statement.
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol,” Trump was shown saying in the documentary.
“And I’ll be there with you. And we fight — we fight like hell.”
But that was not how Trump delivered the remarks.
Trump actually said: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol.
“And we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you’ll never take back our country with weakness.
“You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”
Trump did not use the phrase “fight like hell” until 54 minutes later, when he was speaking about fighting for election integrity.
The BBC documentary stitched the separate statements together without informing viewers of the lengthy gap between them.
The clip also included fake sounds to make the crowd appear more menacing.
Whistleblower Exposed Editing Controversy
The controversy exploded after The Telegraph published excerpts from a whistleblower dossier compiled by Michael Prescott, a communications adviser hired by the BBC to examine its editorial standards.
Prescott’s dossier raised concerns about the integrity of the documentary’s editing and revealed how the two separate portions of Trump’s speech had been combined.
The resulting footage created the impression that Trump’s language about marching to the Capitol flowed directly into his “fight like hell” remark.
Trump’s lawsuit argues that the editing fundamentally distorted what he actually said and damaged his reputation.
His lawyers have also accused the broadcaster of acting maliciously and attempting to influence voters during the 2024 presidential campaign.
BBC Leadership Resigned Following Scandal
The fallout ultimately reached the top levels of the British broadcaster.
BBC CEO Deborah Turness and Director-General Tim Davie resigned last year amid the controversy surrounding the documentary and broader questions about the organization’s editorial practices.
Trump has repeatedly accused the BBC and other legacy media organizations of manipulating coverage to damage him politically.
His lawsuit seeks to turn those complaints into one of the largest media defamation cases in recent memory.
Trump Still Seeking $10 Billion
Trump must file his amended complaint by Monday.
The revised lawsuit is expected to place greater emphasis on the personal reputational damage Trump says he suffered from the BBC’s broadcast.
He continues to seek $10 billion in total damages.
Monday’s ruling does not determine whether Trump will ultimately prevail on the merits of his defamation claims, and the BBC will be permitted to file another motion seeking dismissal of the amended complaint.
But the broadcaster failed in its attempt to stop Trump from rewriting and strengthening his case.
Its previous dismissal motion has now been wiped off the board.
And the BBC will soon have to confront a new version of Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit over a documentary that stitched together remarks delivered 54 minutes apart and presented them to viewers as though they were one continuous statement.
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