President Trump Deeply Concerned By BBC's Editing, Lawsuit Filed: White House Press Secretary

Last Updated:November 13, 2025, 02:18 IST

Donald Trump sues BBC for allegedly dishonest editing of his January 6 speech, calling BBC staff corrupt after Tim Davie and Deborah Turness resigned amid the scandal.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks at the press conference. (ANI/X)

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday President Donald Trump is “deeply concerned by the editing" by the fake news spread by UK broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) and the President’s External Legal Counsel has filed a lawsuit against the organisation.

“…The President was deeply concerned by the editing, the purposeful and dishonest editing of his speech, which was so clearly fake news…The President’s External Legal Counsel has filed a lawsuit against the BBC. We expect that to continue, and whether they apologise or not is up to them…," Leavitt said at the press conference.

Previously, Trump had called BBC journalists “corrupt" after BBC Chief Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness resigned following a scandal over the editing of a documentary about the US President.

Trump also alleged “foreign interference" from an “ally" and said the BBC was exposed, calling its staff “very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election." He also thanked the UK-based newspaper The Telegraph.

“The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught ‘doctoring’ my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th," Trump posted on Truth Social.

“Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these Corrupt ‘Journalists’," he wrote.

“These are very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election. On top of everything else, they are from a Foreign Country, one that many consider our Number One Ally. What a terrible thing for Democracy!" he further added.

Britain’s publicly funded national broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made on January 6, 2021, before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington.

Critics said that the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary last year was misleading and cut out a section where Trump said that he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.

Trump had also sent a threatening legal letter to BBC. A lawyer for Trump said the BBC defamed the President “by intentionally and deceitfully editing its documentary in order to try and interfere in the Presidential Election". He has demanded at least $1 billion in damages.

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