US president Donald Trump has said that he still intends to take legal action against the BBC over the editing of a speech on a Panorama documentary.
“We’ll sue them from $1bn to $5bn, probably sometime next week,” he told reporters on board Air Force One.
"We have to do it, they’ve even admitted that they cheated. Not that they couldn’t have not done that. They cheated. They changed the words coming out of my mouth," he said.
President Trump said he had not spoken to Prime Minister Keir Starmer yet but planned to do so over the weekend.
His comments followed an apology from the BBC on Thursday in which it said the edit of Trump’s speech on January 6 2021 had given the “mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action”.
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