The New York tycoon's legal team alleges that the British company manufactured a montage to be shown in a documentary on the Panorama program broadcast in 2024.
The alleged anomaly consisted of editing separate fragments of a speech delivered by Trump on January 6, 2021, which gave the impression that he had given the order for a group of civilians to go violently to the Capitol.
Although the BBC accepted having made a mistake and offered an apology, the 80-year-old Republican claims that his reputation was affected and that this caused him discredit and prevented him from completing several million-dollar deals.
For this reason, it demands $10 billion in compensation, a sum never before seen in a lawsuit of this type.
However, Michael Cohen's extensive experience in legal matters allows him to anticipate that the lawsuit will not proceed and, when the time comes, Trump will desist from continuing.
"I don't think this is a winnable case. The legal team probably didn't give him the best advice in this regard," he said during his participation on the radio program "The Dan Abrams Show," which is broadcast by SiriusXM.
The lawyer in charge of representing the New York magnate for several years stated that the true objective behind the multimillion-dollar lawsuit is to achieve a compensatory agreement similar to those reached with the American television networks Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), in 2025; and American Broadcasting Company (ABC), in 2024. However, it anticipates a more complex process.
"Not all cases are going to end like this, and certainly not this one with the BBC. I think there is too much at stake for him," he emphasized.
