US president Donald Trump has threatened a lawsuit of up to $5 billion against the BBC. Mr Trump’s lawyers had initially set a Friday deadline for the BBC to retract its documentary or face a lawsuit for “no less” than $1 billion. “We’ll sue them for anywhere between $1 billion and $5 billion, probably sometime next week,” Mr Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he headed to Florida for the weekend. In an interview with British right-leaning TV channel GB News, Mr Trump said the edit was “impossible to believe” and compared it to election interference. [ Why the BBC has apologised over a Donald Trump speech edit, and what happens nextOpens in new window ]“I made a beautiful statement, and they made it into a not beautiful statement,” he said.
