Trump Files $5 Billion Lawsuit Against BBC Over January 6 Smear

President Donald Trump filed a massive $5 billion lawsuit against the BBC on Monday, accusing the British state-funded media giant of deliberately manipulating video footage to falsely portray him as inciting violence during the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Miami, claims that a BBC documentary defamed the former president by using heavily edited clips from his speech to suggest he had called for a violent uprising a claim Trump says is not only false but malicious.

“This instance of doctoring in the form of distortion of meaning and splicing of entirely unrelated word sequences is part of the BBC’s longstanding pattern of manipulating President Trump’s speeches,” the suit reads.

According to court filings, the documentary spliced together two small portions of Trump’s speech, spoken 55 minutes apart, to fabricate the appearance of a direct call to violence. It also conveniently omitted Trump’s explicit call for his supporters to protest “peacefully and patriotically.”

This is not just a case of creative editing it’s deliberate defamation at the hands of a taxpayer-funded foreign media outlet that has shown repeated hostility toward conservative leaders and values.

Here’s what we now know:

• The BBC has admitted the edit “unintentionally created the impression” that Trump called for violence.

• The broadcaster issued a formal apology after intense backlash, admitting it failed to clarify the clips were from different parts of the speech.

• Two high-level BBC executives resigned following the controversy, after an internal memo revealed the network knew the portrayal was misleading but allowed it to air anyway.

“We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech,” the BBC said in a public statement. “We would like to apologize to President Trump for that error of judgement.”

Too little, too late.

For years, the BBC like many corporate media outlets has operated with unchecked bias, especially when reporting on Trump and the conservative movement. This latest incident isn’t an isolated mistake. It’s a pattern of behavior rooted in narrative-driven journalism, not truth.

The documentary in question, which the BBC says will now never be re-aired, is only the latest example of how the media has weaponized misinformation under the guise of public service.

And the consequences are real. By deceptively portraying the sitting President of the United States as calling for insurrection, the BBC fueled a global narrative that led to smears, censorship, and political persecution including attempts to ban Trump from the ballot and criminally prosecute him based on outright lies.

This lawsuit matters because someone is finally holding the media accountable. For too long, powerful outlets have pushed falsehoods with impunity, shaping public opinion without consequence. If any other public figure were targeted with this level of defamation, the outrage would be deafening.

But when it comes to Trump, the media thinks it can get away with anything.

The stakes are even higher as Trump heads toward a likely return to the White House. The establishment media knows he’s a threat to their grip on narrative control and they’re doing everything they can to stop him, including rewriting history.

This lawsuit is about far more than a single documentary. It’s about drawing a line in the sand and making it clear that no media outlet foreign or domestic has the right to defame a president and escape responsibility.

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