{"id":43760,"date":"2025-11-14T14:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=43760"},"modified":"2026-06-15T14:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:41:41","slug":"bbc-denies-compensation-to-donald-trump-amid-lawsuit-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2025\/11\/14\/bbc-denies-compensation-to-donald-trump-amid-lawsuit-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC denies compensation to Donald Trump amid lawsuit threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/donald.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43768\" style=\"width:1021px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/donald.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/donald-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/donald-640x366.jpg 640w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/donald-681x389.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image: Kingofthedead \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BBC has refused to pay compensation to Donald Trump, who has threatened a billion-dollar lawsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president is yet to respond to an apology over an edited Panorama clip, which appeared to suggest he incited violence during a rally before the attack on the Capitol in January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has welcomed the move. However, Anna Sabine, the Liberal Democrat MP for Frome and East Somerset, said the government needs to do more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She wrote to the Prime Minister, saying: &#8220;You want to support the BBC but you need to pick up the phone to Donald Trump and tell him to drop this ridiculous lawsuit.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bbc.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43778\" style=\"width:869px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bbc.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bbc-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bbc-640x366.jpg 640w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bbc-681x389.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image: Michal Belka \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She added: &#8220;This would cost British licence payers a billion dollars.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a public statement, the BBC said the edit had given &#8220;the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct all for violent action&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have 24 hours to stop Trump\u2019s billion-dollar raid on British license fee payers.<br><br>The Liberal Democrats have written to the Prime Minister, calling on him to demand that Trump drop his ludicrous $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rKfPWIhfIJ\">pic.twitter.com\/rKfPWIhfIJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ed Davey (@EdwardJDavey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdwardJDavey\/status\/1989079595363053703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked her opinion on the BBC&#8217;s controversial Panorama edit, Mrs Sabine claimed that &#8220;the sequencing has been poor and that is a lesson the BBC are going to learn from this.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Going forward the Liberal Democrats &#8220;would like to see this government robustly defending its national broadcaster&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has refused to pay compensation to Donald Trump, who has threatened a billion-dollar lawsuit. The president is yet to respond to an apology over an edited Panorama clip, which appeared to suggest he incited violence during a rally before the attack on the Capitol in January 2021. The Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":43778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1766],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43785,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43760\/revisions\/43785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}