The BBC could be forced to fork out millions in licence fee payers’ money as it vowed to defend itself from a $10bn defamation lawsuit launched by Donald Trump.
President Trump’s lawyers argue the depiction of him given in an edit of a Panorama documentary a week before the results of the 2024 US election, “was false and defamatory,” and claimed the corporation had “intentionally and maliciously sought to fully mislead its viewers around the world”.
