The outgoing CEO of BBC News resigned this weekend over accusations that the news organization had misleadingly edited a speech by President Trump. Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images

The BBC is mired in a massive political fight over its future right now, with conservatives capitalizing on an editing screw-up and denouncing the British broadcaster while liberals argue that the institution is flawed but worth defending.

This is, in other words, about a whole lot more than a misleading edit in a one-year-old documentary about President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.

But on Monday, Trump intensified the pressure by sending a legal threat to the news organization over the misleading edit.

A BBC spokesperson told CNN that “we will review the letter and respond directly in due course

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