LONDON: Great Britain bbc He apologized to Donald Trump on Thursday for editing a speech to make it appear he had advocated violence, trying to head off the US president’s threat of legal action, but the broadcaster rejected the grounds for a defamation lawsuit.
In a statement, the bbc said its president Samir Shah sent a personal letter to the White House making it clear to Trump that he and the corporation were “regretted” by the edit, adding that the broadcaster has no plans to rebroadcast the Panorama documentary on any of its platforms.
“While the bbc “He sincerely regrets the way the video clip was edited, we do not agree that there is a basis for a defamation claim,” said the bbc saying.
The leak of internal accusations of bias in the bbcincluding the way he edited a 2021 Trump speech on the day his supporters invaded the Capitol, forced his two top leaders to resign and Trump threatened a billion-dollar lawsuit.
That puts the bbc runs the risk of having to use money paid by its viewers to compensate the president of the United States for a mistake he himself made, giving more ammunition to critics at a time when a growing number of people are canceling their annual licensing fees.
Trump’s lawyers had told the bbc withdraw the Panorama program, apologize to the president and adequately compensate him for the damage caused, or face a lawsuit for damages of at least a billion dollars.
