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Donald Trump says he has ‘obligation’ to sue BBC over speech edit

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Donald Trump: ‘They defrauded the public and they’ve admitted it.’ Photograph: Craig Hudson/CNP/Shutterstock

Donald Trump has said he feels he has “an obligation” to sue the BBC over its editing of one of his speeches, as a deadline looms for the corporation to respond to his billion-dollar legal threat.

The US president accused the broadcaster of having “defrauded the public” with an edition of Panorama last year that spliced together two parts of a speech he made on 6 January 2021 and has given it until Friday to respond.

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