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and he is looking for $10 billion from the broadcaster.
Now, Trump has long clashed with the BBC, but this particular suit stems from a documentary that they put out ahead of the 2024 election.
It was called Trump, A Second Chance.
And the film played this clip of the president's National Mall speech to supporters back on January 6th, 2021.
The problem is that quote is actually two quotes, and they were spoken nearly an hour apart during that speech.
When you listen to each of them on their own in the broader context of the speech, it's much more clear that Trump was not telling people to storm the Capitol.
For example, here's the original clip in its context.
Now that deceptive editing sparked an internal review at the BBC, which concluded that there had been, quote, a string of incidents that demonstrates serious bias in the corporation's reporting.
Again, that's in their own words.
Trump's lawsuit includes that quote from the outlet and says they, quote, intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively doctored his speech
in a brazen attempt to interfere in the 2024 presidential election.
Now, the network has already issued an apology to Trump, but the outlet says that they are going to fight back against this lawsuit.
In a statement this week, they conceded that they, quote, regret the manner in which the video was edited, but strongly disagree that there is a basis for a defamation claim.
Now, the Trump administration had another, you know, hit piece against them related to some of the top advisors of Trump.
Tell us about that situation.
Yeah, a wild story from Vanity Fair that has just taken Washington by storm this week.
So for the last year, Vanity Fair reporter Chris Whipple has been sort of shadowing some of the president's inner circle, mainly Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
Part one of that story was published Tuesday, and it included a number of remarkably candid on-the-record quotes from Wiles talking about some of the inner circle and even cabinet members at the White House.
For example, of J.D.
Vance, Wiles said, quote, he has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade.