The British Broadcasting Corp. issued a formal apology to Donald Trump on Thursday over the misleading edit of the US president’s speech in a documentary program late last year, but rejected his demands for compensation.

BBC Chairman Samir Shah sent a personal letter to the White House “making clear to President Trump that he and the corporation are sorry for the edit of the President’s speech on 6 January 2021, which featured in the programme,” the BBC said in a statement.

Separately, lawyers for the national broadcaster have written to Trump’s legal team in response to the president’s threats of legal action, seeking no less than $1 billion in damages if the BBC didn’t issue an apology, retract the documentary and compensate the president appropriately for “harm caused.”

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