US President Donald Trump has said he will take legal action against the BBC over how his speech was edited by Panorama, after the corporation apologised but refused to compensate him.Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Friday evening, Trump said: “We’ll sue them for anywhere between $1bn and $5bn probably sometime next week.”The BBC has said the edit of the 6 January 2021 speech had unintentionally given “the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action”.The BBC apologised but said it would not pay financial compensation.The controversy led to the resignations of BBC director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness.”I think I have to do it,” Trump told reporters of his plan to take legal action. “They cheated. They changed the words coming out of my mouth.”He said he had not raised the issue with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer but that he would call him over the weekend.Earlier this week the US president’s lawyers threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn in damages unless the corporation issued a retraction, apologised and compensated him.Searches of public court record databases earlier showed no legal action had been filed so far.Federal and state courts in Florida, where a case would likely be filed, are now closed for the weekend. In an interview aired on GB news on Saturday and recorded before Trump confirmed he would take legal action, the US president said: “I’ve been doing this for a long time, I’ve never seen anything like that. That’s, that’s the most egregious. I think that was worse than the Kamala thing with CBS and 60 Minutes.”In July this year, US media company Paramount Global agreed to pay $16m (£13.5m) to settle a legal dispute with Trump regarding an interview it broadcast on CBS with former vice-president Kamala Harris. “I think I have an oblig …
