The BBC issued an apology to President Donald Trump on Thursday over the network’s alleged deceptive editing of Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021, while contesting Trump’s basis for a defamation claim over the matter.

Trump threatened to file a $1 billion lawsuit against the network over the edit of his speech, with his lawyers giving BBC counsel a deadline of Friday at 5 p.m. to retract “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” about the president.

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