Donald Trump intenta una causa da 10 miliardi di dollari contro la BBC Il presidente americano sostiene che il documentario del 2024 dell’emittente pubblica britannica era “denigratorio, provocatorio e dannoso”

> Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10bn over a misleading edit of a speech by the US president in a documentary, which he alleges was “fabricated” and defamatory.
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> The lawsuit, filed on Monday, accuses the UK public broadcaster of publishing “a false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory and malicious depiction of President Trump” in a Panorama documentary that aired ahead of the 2024 US presidential election.
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> The BBC apologised to Trump last month over the documentary, which suggested he had encouraged his supporters to storm the Capitol building on January 6 2021 as lawmakers ratified his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 US election.
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> Trump brought the lawsuit in his personal capacity in a federal court in Florida, suing the BBC for one count of defamation and one count of violating Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. The president is seeking at least $5bn in damages for each count.
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> The court documents said that the documentary had caused “massive economic damage to his brand value and significant damage and injury to his future financial prospects”.
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> The BBC said on Tuesday: “As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case. We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings.”
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> Last month, the broadcaster said that while it “sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim”.
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> The lawsuit raises the stakes in the UK broadcaster’s clash with Trump, which has led to the resignations of BBC director-general Tim Davie and the head of BBC News Deborah Turness.
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> It also marks the latest complaint filed by the president against a media outlet. He has targeted US groups including CBS over its editing of an interview with Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival in the 2024 election race.
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> Trump also sued ABC for defamation over on-air comments made by George Stephanopoulos, one of its star anchors. CBS owner Paramount and ABC have agreed to pay $16mn and $15mn respectively to settle the president’s lawsuits.
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> The BBC lawsuit centres on the documentary splicing together parts of Trump’s speech in which he told supporters on January 6 2021 to “walk down to the Capitol” and then to “fight like hell”.
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> Trump had originally said “we’re going to walk down to the Capitol and cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women”.
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> The president, in Monday’s filing, alleged that the BBC had “intentionally omitted” a part of the speech in which he said: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
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> Legal experts have said that the case’s success is likely to initially hinge on whether Trump’s lawyers could prove jurisdiction to pursue the case in a Florida court.
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> The lawsuit can be filed in Florida because the BBC dispatched staff there to gather original footage for the documentary, Trump claims, making the BBC “subject to personal jurisdiction”.
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> Trump’s lawsuit also states that the show was available in Florida to subscribers of BritBox, the BBC-owned subscription streaming service. It argues that viewers may have used VPNs to circumvent “geoblocking” restrictions on the broadcast, and claims that it was distributed through a third-party distributor called Blue Ant Media Corporation.
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> Blue Ant Media oversees international licensing of the documentary outside the UK, which means it had the rights to sell it to international broadcasters. The company, which last month said that the show had been withdrawn from its distribution catalogue, was not immediately available for comment on Tuesday.
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> BBC lawyers last month set out five grounds to reject Trump’s defamation claim, according to people with knowledge of the position, including arguing that there was no jurisdiction. The BBC said that the documentary was not distributed in the US and the broadcaster’s iPlayer streaming service was “geoblocked” from viewers.
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> British politicians rallied around the BBC on Tuesday. Stephen Kinnock, a minister in the Labour government, said that “it’s right that the BBC stands firm” and that “they are right to stick by their guns”. He said Labour “will always stand up for the BBC as a vitally important institution”.
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> He told Sky News that the BBC has been “very clear that there is no case to answer in terms of Mr Trump’s accusations on the broader point about libel or defamation”.
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> Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said that the government needed to “stand up for the BBC against Trump’s outrageous legal threat and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket”.
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> The lawsuit threatens to overshadow the UK government’s publication of a green paper later on Tuesday that will lay out options for the future of the BBC, including funding options.
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Lol, classic Trump move. Suing BBC, rly? Dude’s got more $$$ than sense.

Let’s start a petition for compulsory purchase of all his assets in the UK

The lawsuit also seems legally impossible. The item was never broadcast by the BBC in the US in the first place, so he’s literally attempting to sue a British public corporation, in Florida for content it broadcast in the UK.

Even if he successfully won a case like that in the English High Court where jurisdiction would be a lot more reasonable, the payout would be nothing like that.

If he won the case in Florida, I don’t even see how it would be enforceable against the BBC. The companies trading as BBC America aren’t owned by BBC – just licensees of the brand.

I mean, they could attempt to enforce a Florida judgments payout in the UK through the English high court, but it would quite likely be thrown out and then what? Some political blow up with the British government ?!

So pathetic.

“pro-speech” 🤡

I heard Glasgow City Council were thinking of suing Trump just because he’s a Fanny!

I’d love to see the discovery for this case

He wants to attack any broadcaster that is not a fascist mouthpiece

BBC, DO NOT FOLD!!! Too many companies and individuals keep „settling“ with Trump. FIGHT BACK!

Some people are unable to see the truth about themselves, and given their inherent insecurities, they project their flaws on others. Who is it who is actually disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious ??

I can’t speak to whether he’ll win the case (since it was a UK broadcast and the lawsuit is in Florida), but it is hard to escape the conclusion that it was indeed “disparaging/ inflammatory/ malicious”.

When the man gives you all the ammunition you could ever need to attack him, and you still decide to cut footage together to confect an imaginary narrative, you are irresponsible and you are not a journalist.

The BBC is repeatedly making the worst case for itself, between its Middle-Eastern-Language pages promoting unchecked islamist propaganda, to outright libel of the President of the US (regardless of his character), there really is a case to be made for significant intervention in the way the BBC operates.

I don’t think he’ll win the suit, I don’t like the man himself, but I think he is right.

They could probably settle by awarding him the “BBC Peace Prize”

Can you Americans please put grandpa to bed? This is bordering on elderly abuse. He’s obviously very confused and lost.

How about everyone and every nation trump disparaged sue him for his inflammatory comments?

Its what he has been doing for year, just trying to shake them down so they settle and he walks away with a couple of million

The problem is that if the BBC fight this (which they absolutely would be right to do – it was an error for which they issued an apology) the cost of doing so and winning is thought likely to be greater than the cost of settling. So they’d need to gamble on the chance of being awarded costs. That’s a hell of a gamble at a time when they have so much else ongoing, with charter renewal etc.

I’d throw a tenner at a GoFundMe for a legal fund for the Beeb to help them beat this – wonder if enough would?

More distraction

Ah, the Roy Cohn strategy. When in big trouble, sue.