U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to sue the BBC for an eye-popping $1 billion US has upped the ante in what was already shaping up as an existential crisis for Britain’s public broadcaster.

In a letter to British MPs on Monday and later in a media interview, BBC chair Samir Shah apologized for what he called an “error in judgment” that led to a clip of Trump in a 2024 documentary being edited in a way that distorte d what he had said.

The clip on the BBC’s premier documentary program, , featured Trump addressing supporters before an angry crowd stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

An internal review by an independent BBC ethics adviser that was leaked last week by the Daily Telegraph newspaper said the clip made it sound like Trump explicitly urged supporters to start a riot w

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