<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>President </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/donald-trump" rel="" target="_blank" title="Donald Trump"><span>Donald Trump</span></a><span> has filed a lawsuit seeking $US10 billion ($15 billion) in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/bbc-apologises-to-donald-trump-but-says-no-basis-for-defamation-claim/0029ca35-297b-4126-873f-367023f9f3be" rel="" target="_blank" title="33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC"><span>33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC</span></a><span> of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory and malicious depiction of President Trump,” calling it “a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence” the 2024 US presidential election.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It accused the BBC of “splicing together two entirely separate parts of President Trump’s speech on January 6, 2021” in order to “intentionally misrepresent the meaning of what President Trump said.”</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-update-accused-gunman-naveed-akram-wakes-from-coma-police-probe-terror-links-as-australia-mourns-victims/ba4f35fc-75fb-428b-a4c7-d7071721873c" rel="" target="_blank" title="Surviving Bondi gunman awakes from coma, charges expected to be laid soon"><strong><span>Surviving Bondi gunman awakes from coma, charges expected to be laid soon</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The lawsuit, filed in a Florida court, seeks $US5 billion in damages for defamation and $US5 billion for unfair trade practices.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The BBC said it would defend the case.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>“We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings,” it said in a statement.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-sues-bbc-for-10-billion-accusing-it-of-defamation-over-editing-of-presidents-jan-6-speech/91c5c146-f3e0-494e-bb35-9c9ca6c6346b" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The broadcaster apologised last month to Trump over the edit of the January 6 speech. But the publicly funded BBC rejected claims it had defamed him, after Trump threatened legal action.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>BBC chairman Samir Shah had called it an “error of judgment,” which triggered the resignations of the BBC’s top executive and its head of news.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The speech took place before some of </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-administration-removes-mentions-of-january-6-riot-from-court-documents/e23d0991-157f-472f-8519-49bce84619d4" rel="" target="_blank" title="Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol"><span>Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol</span></a><span> as Congress was poised to certify president-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election that Trump falsely alleged was stolen from him.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-matildas-family-break-down-as-they-farewell-10-year-old-at-vigil/eefccef9-1e1c-417a-b368-aae65fc41a33" rel="" target="_blank" title="Matilda's grieving family break down as they farewell 10-year-old at Bondi vigil"><strong><span>Matilda's grieving family break down as they farewell 10-year-old at Bondi vigil</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The BBC had broadcast the hour-long documentary — titled </span><em><span>Trump: A Second Chance?</span></em><span> — days before the 2024 US presidential election.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It spliced together three quotes from two sections of the 2021 speech, delivered almost an hour apart, into what appeared to be one quote in which Trump urged supporters to march with him and “fight like hell.”</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Among the parts cut out was a section where Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Trump said earlier on Monday that he was suing the BBC “for putting words in my mouth.”</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>“They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with January 6 that I didn’t say, and they’re beautiful words, that I said, right?” the president said unprompted during an appearance in the Oval Office.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>“They’re beautiful words, talking about patriotism and all of the good things that I said. They didn’t say that, but they put terrible words.”</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-terror-attack-victims-named/8e866d73-4e45-4198-b28b-3661b4d8ad58" rel="" target="_blank" title="Girl, Holocaust survivor, former police officer: What we know about the 15 people killed in the Bondi Beach terror attack"><strong><span>Girl, Holocaust survivor, former police officer: What we know about the 15 people killed in the Bondi Beach terror attack</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The president's lawsuit was filed in Florida. Deadlines to bring the case in British courts expired more than a year ago.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Legal experts have brought up potential challenges to a case in the US given that the documentary was not shown in the country.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The lawsuit alleges that people in the US can watch the BBC's original content, including the “Panorama” series, which included the documentary, by using the subscription streaming platform BritBox or a virtual private network service.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://9.nine.com.au/Z8tJCf"><strong><span>Sign up here</span></strong></a><strong><span> to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.</span></strong></div></div>