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Trump’s $1B lawsuit threat against the BBC over editing his Jan. 6 speech faces steep odds: the deadline expired and the documentary never aired in the U.S.

The edit spliced Trump’s words an hour apart to suggest he urged supporters to “fight like hell,” prompting BBC leadership to resign over the misleading cut.

Trump’s track record of securing multimillion-dollar media settlements suggests this threat may be leverage for a payout rather than genuine litigation.

LONDON — President Trump’s threat to bring a billion-dollar lawsuit against the BBC has cast a shadow over the British broadcaster’s future, but it could also be a bluff with little legal merit.

The president’s lawyer

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