{"id":10800,"date":"2025-12-16T13:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/british-government-backs-the-bbc-as-trump-sues-it-for-billions-politico\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:04:18","slug":"british-government-backs-the-bbc-as-trump-sues-it-for-billions-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/british-government-backs-the-bbc-as-trump-sues-it-for-billions-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"British government backs the BBC as Trump sues it for billions \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>And he said of the BBC: \u201cI think the broader argument that they were making \u2014 they are right to stick by their guns on that. And I hope that they will continue to do so as an independent organization, of course, funded by the license fee \u2014 a hugely important institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26378421-trumpvbbc121525\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a>, filed in Miami on Monday, complains that the BBC \u201cmaliciously\u201d spliced together two comments Trump made more than 54 minutes apart in order to convey the impression that he\u2019d urged his supporters to engage in violence as electoral votes were set to be tabulated by the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/13\/bbc-trump-apology-documentary-00651451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/british-government-backs-the-bbc-as-trump-sues-it-for-billions\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And he said of the BBC: \u201cI think the broader argument that they were making \u2014 they are right to stick by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-gcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}