The BBC has been accused of “defaming” Donald Trump’s “reputation” with their “reckless” Panorama edit, as the broadcaster faces a multi-billion dollar lawsuit.
Speaking to GB News, US Political Commentator declared the BBC’s doctored footage of the President “deliberately misleading”.
Mr Trump has filed a $10billion (£7.48billion) lawsuit against the broadcaster over the edit of a Panorama programme featuring his January 6 speech.
The Potus accused the broadcaster of “defamation” and breaking Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
He is pushing for $5billion (£3.74billion) for each alleged offence.
Supporting the President’s legal action against the BBC, Ms Notzon fumed: “I understand the concerns for the British taxpayer, but this is about the principle of the BBC and it upholding its standard to deliver unbiased news.
“And Trump, I believe, is in the right because it was extremely reckless, deliberately misleading, and it defamed Trump’s reputation.
“I had people here that are American, actually from Florida, who saw that and did not vote for Trump because of that.”
As host Andrew Pierce argued that Mr Trump would need “millions” of cases such as the one she mentioned in order to raise a significant case, she responded: “Yes, the bar is really high to prove this, but I think it’s more of the principle that the Prescott report that was leaked, the memo that there was systemic bias and it went to such a level that they tried to interfere in a US election instead of saying that Trump what he actually said was to go down to the Capitol and use their voices patriotically and peacefully.
“They said they would go down to the Capitol and fight like hell. That is gross negligence, that is reckless, and to this day, people still fight about what really happened there in the United States of America.”
Nora Lee Notzon has accused the BBC of ‘defaming Donald Trump’s reputation’ with ‘reckless’ edit
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Making clear that the President’s legal action is “not just about the money”, Ms Notzon explained: “And it’s not only about the money, because we know it will probably settle for $15million, $16million like ABC did, like CBS did.
“But this is going to magnify the systemic bias at the BBC if they fight this.
“Because it’s not only about winning it, it’s going to magnify all the bias within the BBC, so I don’t think it behooves them to fight it. If I were the head of the BBC, I would settle and an issue another apology.”
Host Miriam Cates then recalled remarks made by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, where she claimed that the edit “is proof that the BBC is 100 per cent fake news that should no longer be worth the time on the television screens of the great people of the United Kingdom”.
Asked by Miriam if she agrees that the remarks are “paternalistic” and an attempt by the White House to “tell the British people what they should or shouldn’t be watching”, the US commentator partially agreed.
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Ms Notzon said: “I agree that is an exaggeration, but I think in relation to this instance, yes, it was fake news.
“The BBC, as you know, is a bit of a national treasure here, it’s broadcast to nearly half a billion people globally.
“When I’ve lived overseas, I always turned on the BBC for my market news. It is something that needs to be protected and saved.”
She added: “And I think Trump feels he’s doing the BBC a favour by filing this lawsuit, because he wants to have them uphold their standards of reporting unbiased news.”
Quizzed by host Andrew Pierce on the significance of the BBC in America, Ms Notzon told GB News: “The BBC is a household name.
Ms Notzon told GB News that it is ‘not an excuse’ for the BBC to say the programme was only broadcast in the UK
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“As you know, we live in a tech century where there’s VPNs, we’re all on X, we’re all on Facebook. People are sharing clips and information.
“Something that is broadcast in the UK spreads like wildfire globally, so that’s not an excuse for the BBC to say it was only broadcast here.”
In a statement, a BBC spokesman said: “As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case.
“We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings.”