Trump to Sue BBC for $5B

“I think I have to,” he said.

The President added that Sir Keir Starmer was “very embarrassed” by the scandal, and that he would speak to the Prime Minister over the weekend.

‘They changed the words coming out of my mouth’

“We’ll sue them for anywhere between $1bn and $5bn probably some time next week,” he told The Telegraph, en route to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

“I think I have to do it. They’ve even admitted that they cheated… They changed the words coming out of my mouth.”

“The people of the UK are very angry about what happened as you can imagine because it shows the BBC is fake news,” Mr Trump continued, saying Sir Keir was “very embarrassed” by the scandal.

Praising The Telegraph’s reporting as a “great service… exposing fake news”, he said the broadcaster had acted “worse than what CBS did with Kamala”.

In a separate interview on GB News on Friday night, Trump claimed he had an “obligation” to take on the BBC, which he labelled “corrupt” and “beyond fake”.

“This was so egregious,” he said. “If you don’t do it, you don’t stop it from happening again with other people. I think you probably have an obligation. I’d like to find out why they did it.”

'I've never seen anything this egregious!'

US President Donald Trump reacts to allegations of bias in the BBC over its editing of one of his speeches.

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The president hit out at the BBC’s “stupid” claim that it had “unintentionally” misled viewers about the content of his speech on Jan 6.

“They wrote me a nice letter saying [they] apologise. But when you say it’s unintentional, I guess if it’s unintentional, you don’t apologise,” he said.

“But they took my words, you know, and I made a beautiful statement, and they made it into a not beautiful statement.”