President Trump stated that he has an obligation to sue the British Broadcasting Corp. over an edited clip from a documentary. The clip made it appear that Trump had encouraged his supporters to storm the Capitol during the January 6th riots.

Trumps lawyers have said that the BBC has violated Florida’s defamation law by posting an edited clip of a documentary from 2024  that aired one week before the Presidential election. The video was edited to make it seem as though Trump actively and openly supported the Jan. 6th riots that occurred in the capitol after he had lost the Presidential race to former President Joe Biden.

The clip quotes Trump saying “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.” (Jeyaretnam,Nov 11). This quote was actually multiple different sentences taken from different periods of his speech. President Trump had said to fight but afterwards Trump told his supporters to protest peacefully.

The Director General Tim Davie and CEO Deborah Turness resigned on Sunday, Nov, 9th. In a letter Davie had sent to his staff he said that “Overall the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as director-general I have to take ultimate responsibility,” (AP,Nov 9).

Turness, while speaking about her stepping down, said that the documentary “has reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC — an institution that I love. As the CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, the buck stops with me”(Turness,Nov 9th).