British Media Frets Over Trump’s Threat to Sue BBC: ‘If the BBC Just Backs Down, It Doesn’t Deserve to Survive’

Sarah Rumpf Nov 12th, 2025, 3:11 pm

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President Donald Trump’s threat to sue the BBC has sent seismic waves of panic through the British media, with numerous commentators fretting that if the public broadcaster caves to the president’s demands, it would effectively end its credibility, if not its existence altogether.

The issue stems from a 2024 documentary that used an edited clip of Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021 that immediately preceded the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol, as his supporters stormed the building to disrupt the certification of the Electoral College votes for President Joe Biden .

The edited clip h

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