The BBC is “determined” to fight the Donald Trump multi-billion dollar legal threat and “protect our licence fee payers,” according to chair Samir Shah .

In a just-sent internal note, seen by Deadline, Shah said: “I want to be very clear with you – our position has not changed. There is no basis for a defamation case and we are determined to fight this.”

Shah was of course referring to the Trump editing scandal, which has caused the resignations of Director General Tim Davie and news chief Deborah Turness. Trump has threatened legal action of at least $1B this week over the Panorama edit, which spliced together two segments of his Jan 6 speech to make it appear that he was inciting a riot.

The BBC has apologized to Trump but Shah, who has called the edit an “error of judge

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