DONALD Trump has vowed to sue the BBC within the next 24 hours following the broadcaster’s misleading documentary scandal and its grovelling apology.
The US president said he would file a libel lawsuit “probably this afternoon or tomorrow evening” after the corporation doctored one of his speeches.
Trump said: “I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth… I guess they used AI or something.
“They actually put terrible words in my mouth.”
It comes after the bungling broadcaster doctored a speech by Trump for an episode of Panorama.
The most powerful man in the world has previously promised to sue the Beeb “from $1billion to $5billion”.
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Trump has also said before that he has an “obligation” to take legal action, despite the broadcaster already apologising for its mistake.
The BBC confirmed the Panorama programme will “not be broadcast again in this form or on any BBC platforms”.
During its apology, the broadcaster said: “This programme was reviewed after criticism of how President Donald Trump‘s 6th January 2021 speech was edited.
“During that sequence, we showed excerpts taken from different parts of the speech.”
They added: “We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech, rather than excerpts from different points in the speech, and that this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action.
“The BBC would like to apologise to President Trump for that error of judgement.”
BBC Newsnight was also been accused of doctoring footage of the US President’s speech and ignoring concerns raised about it.
In the Newsnight edit, Trump is presented saying: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol.
“And we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. And we fight. We fight like hell.
“And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country anymore.”
A voiceover from presenter Kirsty Wark followed saying “and fight they did” over a clip of the Capitol riot.
Trump previously let rip over the October 2024 Panorama programme that spliced sections of his speech to suggest he directly stoked the 2021 insurrection.
The broadcaster’s documentary said: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol, and I’ll be there with you and we fight.”
Whereas he actually said: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”
The scandal hit BBC director Tim Davie who resigned in November.
This was followed by CEO of BBC NewsDeborah Turness’ departure.