2025-12-17
9 分钟This is The Guardian.
There's been real inflation on this lawsuit.
It started out at a billion dollars,
then he said it would be a five billion dollar lawsuit and now he has said it is a ten million dollar lawsuit.
It's got real Austin Powers energy.
Absolutely, times a hundred million or whatever, or more than that.
Yeah, I'm suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth, literally, to put words in my mouth.
They had me saying things that I never said coming out, I guess they used AI or something.
I think you'd have to say that if the BBC doesn't fight this case,
there is very little hope that others will in the future
because it's hard to think of a broadcast store or an institution in a stronger position to do it.
While the BBC is fighting back in a multi-billion dollar defamation lawsuit from President Trump.
From the Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.
Joining me is Archie Bland, Head of National News at The Guardian.
Thanks for being with us Archie.
It's great to see you.
So let's recap what this lawsuit is all about
because this is an edit of a panorama documentary that was released just over a year ago that spliced two parts of a Trump speech delivered on January the 6th together.
The clips were actually delivered 50 minutes apart and this was all part of an internal BBC memo that came to light at the start of last month.
Trump at that time threatened a lawsuit.