The chair of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Samir Shah, on Thursday said he had sent a personal letter to the White House in which he and the UK-based broadcaster apologised to US President Donald Trump over a misleading edit of his January 6, 2021, speech.

However, the BBC maintained that it strongly disagreed that there was any basis for a defamation lawsuit.

“We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech, rather than excerpts from different points, and that this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action," the BBC wrote in a retraction.

Trump’s lawyer had earlier sent the broadcaster a letter demanding an apology and threatening a $1 billion la

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