BBC prepared to apologise to Trump to resolve billion-dollar legal threat

Wed, 12 Nov 2025

The US president has threatened the BBC with a lawsuit over the editing of a Trump speech in an edition of Panorama

The BBC is prepared to formally apologise to Donald Trump as part of its efforts to resolve his billion-dollar legal threat over its editing of one of his speeches, the Guardian understands.

However, figures at the corporation are also minded to be robust in defending its journalism in the face of allegations from Trump that it made “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” about him.