Given the honour of asking the first question at a White House press briefing this week, Beverley Turner, a Washington-based journalist for GB News, provocatively inquired: “Is the President prepared to bankrupt the BBC in his pursuit of truth and justice?”

The invitation to ridicule the UK national broadcaster was embraced by the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, who responded: “The President has made it very clear that this is a leftist propaganda machine that is unfortunately subsidised by British taxpayers.”

Donald Trump has identified his moment to redefine British media . He is suing the BBC for “anywhere between a billion and $5bn”, just as it begins difficult negotiations for an extension to the public funding model that enables it to be the world’s most popular m

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