As announced, US President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the BBC for editing his speech from January 6, 2021, in the documentary "Panorama".
Trump is seeking $5 billion (4,2 billion euros) in damages.
The US president has accused the BBC of defamation and violating trade practice laws, according to court documents filed in Florida.
The BBC apologized to Trump in November, but rejected his claim for damages and disagreed with his contention that there was any "basis for a defamation claim."
Trump's legal team accused the BBC of defaming him by "deliberate, malicious and deceptive falsification of his speech."
The BBC has not yet responded to the lawsuit.
Trump said in November he planned to sue the BBC for the editing of his speech in a documentary, broadcast in the UK before the 2024 US election.
"I have to sue them. They lied, they changed the words that came out of my mouth," he told reporters at the White House at the time.
In a speech on January 6, 2021, before the riots at the U.S. Capitol, Trump told the crowd: "We will walk to the Capitol to support our brave senators and congressmen and women."
More than 50 minutes later in the speech, he said, "And we will fight. We will fight hard."
On the BBC's Panorama program, Trump was shown saying: "We're going to walk to the Capitol (the Capitol building in Washington)... and I'll be there with you. And we're going to fight. We're going to fight hard."
The BBC admitted that the editing left a "false impression" that Trump was "directly calling for violent action", but also that it believed there was no basis for a defamation claim.
In November, a leaked internal BBC memo criticized the way the speech was edited, leading to the resignations of BBC Director General Tim Davey and News Director Deborah Tarns.
Before Trump filed the lawsuit, BBC lawyers issued a lengthy response to the US president's claims.
They said there was no malice in the editing and that no harm was done to Trump, as he was re-elected shortly after the documentary aired.
They also emphasized that the BBC did not have the rights to distribute the Panorama program on American channels, which it did not do.
Although the documentary was available on BBC iPlayer, visibility was limited to viewers in the UK only.
In the lawsuit, Trump cites agreements the BBC had with other distributors to show the content, specifically one with an independent media corporation that allegedly had the rights to license the documentary outside the UK.
The BBC has not yet responded to these claims, nor has the corporation responded to the alleged distribution agreement.
The lawsuit also claims that people in Florida may have accessed the program using a VPN or using the streaming service BritBox.
“The publicity surrounding the Panorama documentary, coupled with the significant increase in VPN usage in Florida since its premiere, establishes a strong likelihood that Florida residents accessed the documentary before the BBC removed it,” the lawsuit states.
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