Trump-BBC live: Tens of thousands sign petition urging broadcaster to refuse president’s $1 billion legal demand
Petition calling for BBC to ignore Trump’s $1bn legal demand signed by tens of thousands
- A petition with over 35,000 signatures is urging the BBC not to compensate Donald Trump following his legal threat.
- The petition argues that any financial payment to Trump would be "inappropriate and against the ethos of public service broadcasting."
- It demands that any compensation paid should be refunded to TV licence payers, citing public objection to such use of funds.
- Donald Trump stated he has an "obligation" to sue the BBC for $1bn over its editing of his 6 January 2021 speech.
- He claims the BBC made his "beautiful speech" sound "radical" and "defrauded the public" by altering it.