The President of the United States is threatening to sue the BBC for $1B.

That sentence needs a bit of digesting, although given Donald Trump ’s litigious ways and the febrile political atmosphere surrounding the UK’s 100-year-old public broadcaster, it maybe shouldn’t come as such a surprise.

Alongside getting to grips with the loss of Director General Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness , the corporation is now grappling with what could end up being a rather expensive lawsuit, and the BBC has by Friday to respond. We understand that this response is currently being prepared as the BBC simultaneously handles the wider fallout of the excoriating Prescott memo . The BBC declined comment on the lawsuit.

The filing from Trump’s legal team says the BBC “intentionally so

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