How Trump could bankrupt the BBC
The Daily T
The Telegraph
4.1 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The US president is suing the BBC for a whopping $10bn, and Camilla and Tim are referred to in the lawsuit.
Donald Trump alleges he was defamed by Panorama and Newsnight’s misleading editing of his speech ahead of the Jan 6 2021 Capitol riot.
Former BBC legal eagle Joshua Rozenberg explains the merits of settling or fighting Trump’s suit to the bitter end.
Plus, resident doctors are going on strike just as the NHS faces a tidal wave of severe flu cases. We hear how the union has been captured by militant Leftists, and ask if medics should be banned from striking altogether.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. Can Donald Trump bring down the BBC? The Daily T broke the story that he quotes in his lawsuit against the corporation. |
| 0:18.4 | To pick through all the detail, we're going to be joined by the BBC's own |
| 0:21.9 | former legal eagle, Joshua Rosenberg. |
| 0:24.5 | And should doctors |
| 0:25.9 | be banned from striking? |
| 0:27.7 | Welcome to the Daily Tea |
| 0:28.7 | with me, Camillotominy. |
| 0:29.7 | And me, Tim Stanley. |
| 0:46.3 | Tim, before we discuss whether Trump has the potential to bankrupt the BBC, you've had a Christmas card cock up. |
| 0:55.6 | I wrote two cards and I think I put them in the wrong envelope, which means that my cleaner got a card that said, Dear Pretty, Merry Christmas. |
| 0:59.6 | And it also means that Pretty Patel got a card that said, |
| 1:01.9 | thank you for everything this year with £40 in it. |
| 1:05.6 | Wow. Do you think the former Home Secretary will give that back? |
| 1:07.4 | As it was for a cleaner, I wish I had added, |
| 1:11.0 | thank you for everything this year and for your discretion. £40. |
| 1:29.0 | I love that you've given your cleaner £40. But Will Pretty, if I have done this, will pretty give the money back? Also, you can't really check it, can you? Because are you going to phone her? I think she'll pocket it. Are you going to phone her and say, oh, by the way, I think I've made an error. I think quite frankly, Tim Tim Stanley, I've earned that money this year. Quite frankly, I think you're fine that all of your requests for quotes for your stories, Tim Stanley. I mean, I can have £40, but I will spend on the local Conservative Association. Also, I saw you writing your cards last week. I don't think I got one. Oh, no. I only send them to people who I get one from. No, you're not going to get one from me, I'm afraid. Every time a card lands on the mat, I open it and curse the person who sent it. It has also become so expensive to send them. Yes, I know. It's about £5 a card, isn't it? I sent 10, including three abroad, and it came to something like 25 pounds. |
| 2:03.5 | It could have been 11, but I won't hold it against you. |
| 2:06.5 | You said next to me. |
| 2:08.2 | Are we witnessing the decline and fall of the BBC, Tim, because Donald Trump has followed up on his threat of suing the BBC by now laying down a $10 billion lawsuit. |
| 2:20.3 | We thought it was $1 billion at one point. |
| 2:22.3 | It's actually 10 now. |
| 2:23.3 | It's now 10. |
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