U.S. President Donald J. Trump said that he will seek up to $5 billion in damages from the BBC in his planned lawsuit over the British public broadcaster’s misleading edits of his speech on January 6th.

Speaking to reporters on Friday evening aboard Air Force One, President Trump said per ITV: “We’ll sue them from $1 billion to $5 billion, probably sometime next week.”

“We have to do it, they’ve even admitted that they cheated. Not that they couldn’t have not done that. They cheated. They changed the words coming out of my mouth,” he added.

Earlier this month, an internal BBC memo leaked by a former ethics advisor revealed that a Panorama documentary produced by the British state broadcaster had “ materially misled ” viewers ahead of last year’s presidential election by splicing two

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