BBC FORCED TO APOLOGISE TO TRUMP – still threatens to sue the corporation for $1bn (£760m) unless they apologise
The BBC is prepared to formally apologise to Donald Trump after he threatened to sue the corporation for $1bn (£760m) after it fabricated one of his speeches.
The US president accused the broadcaster of “reckless disregard for the truth” after The Telegraph revealed a Panorama documentary edited his speech to make it appear that he had incited the 2021 Capitol Hill riot.
Tim Davie, the BBC director-general who resigned on Sunday, has since foolishly blamed “enemies” of the corporation for stoking the row and declared the broadcaster “the very best of society”. He seems to be blind to the fact that the BBC fraudulently presented the U.S. President in a way that could have affected an election in another country.
It is understood that the BBC is now ready to apologise, with its lawyers working on the wording of their response to the US president.
Pressure continues to mount on the BBC ahead of Mr Trump’s Friday deadline for it to issue a retraction, apologise and compensate him “for the harm caused”.
