The BBC is being accused of cutting a line from a speech that called Donald Trump “the most openly corrupt” U.S. president ever as the organization faces a possible $5 billion lawsuit from Trump over a separate dispute.

The British state broadcaster is under intense pressure after it was forced to apologize and two of its senior executives resigned over an edition of a show that stitched together two parts of the president’s Jan. 6 speech.

Rutger Bregman, 37, a Dutch author and historian who was delivering this year’s prestigious BBC Reith Lectures, said the broadcaster removed a “key line” from his remarks, with the decision made at “the highest levels.”

In a video statement, Bregman said the sentence describing Trump, 79, as “the most openly corrupt president in American history” had

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