U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC for its editing of a speech he made in 2021 on the day his supporters overran the Capitol, which the British broadcaster admitted on Monday was an “error of judgement”.

In the letter sent on Sunday and seen by Reuters, the president’s lawyers said the BBC must retract its documentary by Friday or face a lawsuit for “no less” than $1 billion.

The letter also demanded that the BBC issue an apology and compensate Trump for what it said was “overwhelming reputational and financial harm”.

The documentary, which aired on the BBC’s flagship Panorama news programme, spliced together three video excerpts from Trump’s speech, creating the impression he was inciting the January 6, 2021, riot. His lawyers said this was “false a

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