LONDON/NEW YORK — President Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC for its editing of a speech he made in 2021 on the day his supporters overran the Capitol, which the British broadcaster admitted on Monday was an “error of judgment”.

The president’s lawyers said the BBC must retract its documentary by November 14 or face a lawsuit for “no less” than $1 billion, according to a letter sent on Sunday.

The documentary on the BBC’s flagship Panorama program spliced together two separate excerpts from one of Trump’s speeches, creating the impression that he was inciting the January 6, 2021 riot, which the lawyers said was “false and defamatory”.

The revelation about the speech and wider criticism of BBC News has plunged the broadcaster into crisis, resulting in the resignat

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