Former UK prime minister Liz Truss has thrown her support behind Donald Trump’s plan to sue the BBC for $1 billion, accusing the broadcaster of manipulating his January 6 speech by swapping his call to march “peacefully and patriotically” with the later phrase “fight like hell.”
Truss blasted the network on Fox News, claiming “they’ve lied, they’ve cheated, they’ve fiddled with footage,” and insisted many Britons “want him to sue the BBC because they’re a huge problem.”
Although the BBC has apologised and withdrawn the documentary at the centre of the scandal—prompting the resignations of Director-General Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness—it has rejected Trump’s demand for compensation.
Truss argues the apology is insufficient and that legal action is necessary, saying, “I want to see him progress with this legal suit because I don’t think they’ve been held to account.”
She accused the BBC of systemic bias against conservatives in the UK and US, calling for it to be “defunded” and declaring the once-respected broadcaster “a laughingstock… [that] needs to be put out of its misery.” Fox News analyst Gregg Jarrett echoed her view, calling the edit “clearly defamatory” under British law, while Trump has said he feels “obligated” to sue and plans to raise the issue with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer before filing.
Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss goes after the BBC for lying about President Trump.
She says many people in the UK are glad Trump is going after the BBC, they should be defunded, and she’s happy he’s suing them.
Truss says the BBC is a “laughingstock.”
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— Professor Iratus Genium (@PGenium) November 15, 2025
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He should indeed.
It was no ” error” of judgment. But done on purpose.
Worse than lying . Publishing in wrong context to mislead..
Go for it Trump. Let them bleed
Sue them to the cleaners Donny! And Truss is right, defund them. Defund all state media. Taxpayers should not be paying for their lies and propaganda!
I searched up BBC online to see what all the fuss was about and it came back with something quite different to Uk media corporation.
Needless to say I was shocked at video I saw. I would certainly sue for compensation if that happened to me.
The lies of the BBC in being the propaganda arm of the British deep state, have cost millions of innocent people their lives.
Just like our media here. Sue those people who thought it was funny to televise them pretending to shoot Trump and for being so absolutely bias.
Defund RNZ TVNZ NTZB MAORI TV and any other government funded news organisation. We will buy their content IF they honest and fair and if not TOUGH and GOODBYE.
Currently the globalist parties of National and Labour are DELIBERATELY stripping our country of wealth and productivity and THATS why we are in the shit show and young are leaving being replaced by people with different cultures and values. JUST LIKE IN THE UK, SWEDEN FRANCE ITALY GERMANY CANADA AUSTRALIA AMERICA etc etc
Who cares.
You cared enough to comment like a pissy teenage girl
Yes! Sue the pants off the BBC. Shut the vermin outfit down. And while your at it shut down ABC Australia, TVNZ & National Radio. Expunge the lot of the worthless mouth breathers from society. It’s time.
“Its done”
Thanks for the memories Liz
President of the United States, Donald J Trump’s litigation threat in response to the BBC’s ‘ Panorama’ error in splicing two of Trump’s January 6, 2021, statements to his disadvantage is as hypocritical as he can get. (Well, maybe!)
His speech was to a “Save America March” and rally, which he called, and which was followed by a violent mob that entered the Capitol to disrupt a joint session of Congress as it certified each state’s electoral college vote making it official that Democrat Joe Biden won the presidency.
It is documented that he said, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” but that is early on and the one only reference to peace in his whole statement.
There are, however, 27 words ‘fight’ in Trump’s January 6 Ellipse speech but the most significant are in his final comments where he said:
“But I said something is wrong here, something is really wrong, can’t have happened, and we fight. We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore.” and then “So we are going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue – I love Pennsylvania Avenue – and we are going to the Capitol. And we are going to try and give – the Democrats are hopeless, they are never voting for anything, not even one vote – but we are going to try to give our Republicans – the weak ones because the strong ones don’t need any of our help – going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.”
Just beforehand Trump allegedly called Vice-President Pence appealing him to block then-incoming President Joe Biden’s certification as the winner of the 2020 election. When Pence refused, Trump reportedly told him that he would “go down as a wimp.”
Trump was diverted from joining the mob by his security unit then while in the White House spent hours TV watching events unfold and ignoring pleas for him to call the riot off.
In effect this was an attempted self-coup two months after Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
Such is Trump’s corrupt way of operating that on his second inauguration day he granted full pardons to nearly everyone charged with offenses related to the Capitol riot, totalling approximately 1,500 individuals.
Very recently he issued a wave of pardons for his alleged co-conspirators, including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Boris Epshteyn, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, and 72 others also tied to the effort to overturn the 2020 election results.
The ’Panorama’ incident pales in comparison.