Trump Doesn’t TACO For Once; POTUS Actually Sues BBC For $5B Over “Brazen” Edited Jan. 6 Documentary

Donald Trump swore he was going to sue the BBC over the self-admitted “error of judgement” the UK public broadcaster displayed in edits for a 2024 documentary on the January 6 insurrection, and today he really did.

For over $5 billion.

“This action concerns a false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump, which was published in a BBC Panorama documentary, that was fabricated and aired by the Defendants one week before the 2024 Presidential Election in a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence the Election’s outcome to President Trump’s detriment,” proclaims the defamation suit filed in federal court Monday in Florida.

 If you wondered what, besides Trump having his official residence there and sympathetic judges, POTUS’ lawyers’ logic is filing in the Sunshine State., it is because the thrust of the action is claiming violations by the Beeb of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. Whether or not, the jury trial seeking suit passes the trans-Atlantic test is a whole other matter – but, as all his other media legal moves have made clear, Trump cares about the move itself almost as much as the money.

Earlier today, the former Apprentice host revived the lawsuit he has first promised weeks ago, “I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth — literally to put words in my mouth,” Trump said in the Oval Office in a press appearance that also took swipes at deceased director Rob Reiner, as well as the war in Ukraine and more. “They had me saying things that I never said coming out.”

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