Trump Sues BBC For MONEY, PLEASE!
Sod off, wanker!
On December 15, Donald Trump has filed yet another media trollsuit against the media. This time his target is the BBC, which he says engaged in tortious editing and damaged him to the tune of $10 billion.
The president has been promising to sue the state-funded media outlet for weeks, ever since the conservative Daily Telegraph published a leaked memo by former BBC adviser Michael Prescott criticizing “Auntie Beeb” for being pro-immigrant and failing to hate trans people enough.
“Without anchoring stories in biological sex, they risk becoming incomprehensible to audiences,” he tut-tutted. “For example, they may not understand the concerns about a transgender woman being sent to a woman’s prison.”
Along with crimes of woke, Prescott noted that a documentary which ran in October of 2024 on the show Panorama spliced together sections of Trump’s January 6 Ellipse speech, omitting 54 minutes between “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you,” and “We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country anymore.”
The clip made it sound like Trump was exhorting his supporters to descend on Congress and do violence — which is obviously how many of them understood him, since that’s exactly what they did. But it was a clear violation of journalistic standards to edit the footage that way, and Prescott’s memo sparked a bloodletting. Multiple members of the BBC’s management resigned, and conservatives roared to end the public subsidy for the outlet.
But Trump, whose entire career is built on exploiting America’s endless culture war, couldn’t resist the chance to profiteer off of someone else’s.
Trump’s lawyer Alejandro Brito fired off his standard menacing litigation letter, barely bothering to change the language from the ones he recently sent to Hunter Biden and journalist Michael Wolff threatening them for (truthfully) pointing out that Donald and Melania Trump used to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein.
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