{"id":16798,"date":"2025-12-16T23:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/uk-lawmaker-bbc-should-stick-by-their-guns-against-trump-defamation-suit\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:20:21","slug":"uk-lawmaker-bbc-should-stick-by-their-guns-against-trump-defamation-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/uk-lawmaker-bbc-should-stick-by-their-guns-against-trump-defamation-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"UK lawmaker: BBC should &#8216;stick by their guns&#8217; against Trump defamation suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British lawmaker on Tuesday urged the BBC to &#8220;stick by their guns&#8221; in its new legal fight with President Trump, who sued the media company and claimed it edited a speech he gave to supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, before the U.S. Capitol attack. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s right that the BBC stands firm on&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5651749-trump-sues-bbc-speech\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British lawmaker on Tuesday urged the BBC to &#8220;stick by their guns&#8221; in its new legal fight with President Trump, who sued the media company and claimed it edited a speech he gave to supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, before the U.S. Capitol attack. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s right that the BBC stands firm on&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}