Donald Trump said he will sue the BBC next week after the corporation apologised but declined to compensate him for a Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.
Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Friday, Trump said: “We’ll sue them for anywhere between $1bn dollars (£759.8m) and $5bn (£3.79bn), probably sometime next week.”
It comes as the deadline the US President’s lawyers had given the BBC to respond expired at 10pm on Friday.
His legal team had threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn in damages unless a retraction and apology were issued after two parts of his 6 January 2021 speech was spliced together.
The corporation said the splicing of the speech was an “error of judgment” but said it refused to pay financial compensation.
Its chair, Samir Shah, also sent a personal letter to the White House to apologise for the editing.
Earlier in the week, Trump said in an interview with Fox News that the BBC had “defrauded the public” over the edit, which made it appear as if he was explicitly urging people to attack the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
He told GB News in an interview broadcast on Saturday he felt an “obligation” to take legal action against the public broadcaster.
“I’m not looking to get into lawsuits, but I think I have an obligation to do it,” he said.
“This was so egregious. If you don’t do it, you don’t stop it from happening again with other people.”
A spokesperson for the BBC said: “While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim.”
Trump told GB News he has had “a lot of success” litigating against news organisations.
“Because it’s fake news,” he said. “But I’ve never had anything so fake as the BBC.
“I’ve been doing this for a long time, I’ve never seen anything like (the BBC edit). That’s the most egregious.”
This story is being updated.
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