UPDATED 4.32 p.m. GMT (8.32 a.m. PT): Donald Trump ‘s legal team is threatening to sue the BBC for $1B, a filing has revealed.

The BBC has been given until this Friday at 5 p.m. ET (2 p.m. PT) to respond to the threat, according to the legal filing obtained by Deadline.

The filing demands the BBC “immediately retract the false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements made about President Trump, which were published in a Panorama documentary that was fabricated and aired by the BBC” in a doc titled Trump: A Second Chance , which aired a few days before last year’s U.S. election.

“The BBC defamed President Trump by intentionally and deceitfully editing its documentary in order to try and interfere in the Presidential Election,” said a statement from Trump’s legal tea

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