The Prime Minister has said on Wednesday that the BBC needs to “get their house in order” as the US President is preparing for court.
Sir Keir Starmer said that Donald Trump has an “obligation” to launch his legal bid against the corporation over what the US President said was “Fake News.”
Starmer said that he believed in a “strong independent” BBC and said that they must “uphold the highest standards.”
Trump said that the corporation “defrauded the public” over their editing of his speech in the Panorama programme, this made the US President look like he was urging people to attack the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
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During an interview with Fox News President Trump said he will be seeking “no less than 1,000,000,000 dollars in damages”.
Trump said, “I think I have an obligation to do it, you can’t allow people to do that.
“I guess I have to. They defrauded the public and they’ve admitted it. This is within one of our great allies, supposedly our great ally.
“That’s a pretty sad event. They actually changed my January 6 speech, which was a beautiful speech, which was a very calming speech, and they made it sound radical.
“They showed me the results of how they butchered it up. It was very dishonest and the head man quit and a lot of the other people quit.”
Trump’s Lawyer Alejandro Brito has written to the BBC demanding the “false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements” to be immediately retracted.
The letter reads, if the BBC “does not comply,” then President Trump will be “left with no alternative but to enforce his legal and equitable rights, all of which are expressly reserved and are not waived, including by filing legal action for no less than 1,000,000,000 dollars in damages”.
