‘My TV licence fee shouldn’t be used to compensate Donald Trump’
Huge support for petition urging BBC not to compensate Trump
- A petition urging the BBC not to compensate US President Donald Trump following his $1 billion legal threat has now exceeded 45,000 signatures.
- The threat arose from the editing of Trump’s 6 January 2021 speech in a Panorama programme, which led to the resignations of BBC director-general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness.
- Trump has given the BBC until Friday 14 November to issue a retraction, apologise and compensate him “for the harm caused”.
- Ian Fisher, the petition's originator, argues that any financial payment to Trump would be “inappropriate and against the ethos of public service broadcasting”.
- The petition demands that any compensation paid to Trump should be refunded to TV licence payers.