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President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against it BBC On Monday night, a huge compensation of 10 billion dollars was demanded.
The lawsuit alleges that the British broadcaster presented a “false, defamatory, misleading, insulting, inflammatory and malicious portrayal of President Trump” in its Panorama documentary, which aired in the weeks before the 2024 presidential election.
More specifically, it alleged BBC His infamous January 6, 2021 speech was edited to make it appear as if he had explicitly urged his supporters to storm the US Capitol building before the insurrection. his speech at that time an argument broke out On whether he had incited violence or not.
“The Panorama documentary falsely depicts President Trump as telling supporters: ‘We’re walking to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you won’t have a country anymore,'” the lawsuit reads. “President Trump never uttered this sequence of words.”
The lawsuit alleges that Trump said the words “and we fight” 55 minutes after saying “I’ll be there with you”, although the documentary reportedly makes it seem as if he said them in that order.
However, Trump himself made a stronger claim. during a Announcement from the Oval Office on Monday nightTrump said he is “suing” BBC To literally put words in my mouth.”
“They actually made me say things that I never said out of my mouth,” Trump said. “I think they used AI or something. They actually put horrible words in my mouth about January 6 that I didn’t say.”
The comments are shocking, as the 33-page lawsuit makes no mention of artificial intelligence and alleges BBC Editing his speech together to make a call to action – not an AI deepfake version of the president, as Trump suggests.
Of course, there are Lots of AI-generated clips of Trump Already out there. Case in point, the President himself likes to post AI slurs on his Truth Social account. But this lawsuit is about something else entirely, namely that Trump was not successfully briefed. On details before his Monday announcement.
last month, BBC received a letter From Trump’s head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr, who has long earned a reputation Trying to cool down speech by abusing your powersIn the letter, Carr accused the broadcaster of singling out Trump’s January 6 speech,
That time, BBC Almost immediately he bowed to pressure and publicly apologized. Yet it rejected Trump’s demand for financial compensation.
Given the $10 billion lawsuit filed this week, this clearly angered Trump and Carr.
“The BBC “Coverage of President Trump has a long pattern of deceiving his audience, all in the service of his own leftist political agenda,” a White House spokesperson said. told cnbc“President Trump’s powerhouse trial is underway BBC “He is held accountable for his defamation and reckless election interference, just as he has held other fake news mainstream media accountable for their wrongdoings.”
It’s a mysterious situation that should raise alarm bells for critics who say Trump is losing his grip on reality.
Just this week, Trump posted a deranged takedown Famous Hollywood director Rob Reiner, who was murdered suspected murder Over the weekend. The president, in an apparent attempt to take a dig at his critics, said the death was linked to “Trump derangement syndrome” – comments Outrage spread across the political spectrum,
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