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Revealed: What does Donald Trump want from the BBC lawsuit?

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 11 Nov 2025, 6:09pm
US President Donald Trump has warned Hamas it faces "all hell" if it does not accept his 20-point plan for peace in Gaza. Photo / Getty Images
US President Donald Trump has warned Hamas it faces "all hell" if it does not accept his 20-point plan for peace in Gaza. Photo / Getty Images

Revealed: What does Donald Trump want from the BBC lawsuit?

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 11 Nov 2025, 6:09pm

The BBC is under extra scrutiny after this latest scandal - and US President Donald Trump is threatening legal action.

A leaked BBC memo suggests the Panorama programme edited Trump’s speech to imply he encouraged the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021.

The US President is demanding a full retraction, and is threatening to sue for nearly $1.8 billion New Zealand dollars in damages.

US correspondent Jonathan Kearsley says it's unclear where Trump will take this legal action.

"If he does it in the United Kingdom, well, they've got different defamation laws to what they do here in the United States - in the United States, you would have to go to a specific state."

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