U.S. President Donald Trump wrote in a letter to the British broadcaster BBC that he is ready to sue over the fake segment about his speech during the Capitol storming.
The BBC reported that it confirmed receiving a letter from Trump threatening legal action, but has not yet been able to comment on it.
The reason for such a reaction from the U.S. president was an article in The Daily Telegraph, which quoted an internal report from the British broadcaster regarding one of its programs.
In this program, a call for a peaceful protest from Trump’s speech on January 6, 2021 – the same day when several thousand of his supporters stormed the Capitol – was cut out, and a fake message about the need for an attack was inserted. Observers noted that the BBC's segment had two different fragments of Trump’s speech edited together in such a way that it created the impression that he was directly calling for chaos at the Capitol in January 2021.
The report cited by The Daily Telegraph also generally described "serious and systemic issues" with the BBC's impartiality.
After the publication of the material, BBC Director-General Tim Davie and the broadcaster's news chief Deborah Turness both resigned, taking responsibility for the incident.
Trump called Davie and Turness "corrupt journalists" and "very dishonest people who tried to influence the results of the U.S. presidential election."
