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Bafta winners Jack Thorne and Jack Rooke have spoken out in support of the broadcaster

The legal action has made news and it will do damage. A potential disaster for the corporation and the UK, but a good day’s work for this president, says media commentator Jane Martinson

In today’s newsletter: The BBC is bracing for a high-stakes legal fight after the US president sues over an edited Panorama clip, and questions mount about the broadcaster’s future funding and political vulnerability

Corporation will argue it did not have rights to air film in US and it did not cause serious reputational harm

The BBC is accused of misleading viewers by editing a speech Donald Trump delivered on 6 January 2021

YOUR VIEWS: Our community is divided, with anger at the BBC’s Panorama edit, scepticism about Trump’s lawsuit and shared concern over who ends up paying

The US President has doubled down on remarks he made following the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele

Pressure mounts on Keir Starmer to intervene as US president demands $10bn in damages for ‘false and defamatory’ Panorama edit

On Monday, Donald Trump announced a lawsuit against the BBC for their unforgivable crime of not editing his Jan. 6 speech kindly enough in their Oct. 2024 documentary. His “terrible” words, he insists, were fake. His “beautiful” ones, meanwhile, were apparently ignored by the BBC.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Keir Starmer has earned a reputation as a ‘Trump whisperer’ with international peers, but the BBC scandal has shown the hard limits of his influence, writes political editor David Maddox

Stephen Kinnock said the broadcaster had been ‘very clear that there is no case to answer’ when it came to accusations of libel.