Trump threatens BBC with $1bn lawsuit over speech edit

US President Donald Trump has threatened the BBC with a $1 billion lawsuit over the “defamatory, malicious” editing of a speech he gave just before the 2021 US Capitol riots, according to a letter obtained by AFP.Read Also: BBC expected to apologise over Trump row after chief resignationTrump’s lawyers gave the British broadcaster a deadline of Friday to fully retract the documentary containing the edit, apologize and “appropriately compensate” the president &ldquo