" President Trump is suing for defamation over the way Panorama spliced together his speech, which he claims made it appear that he had directly encouraged his supporters to storm the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. The BBC has previously apologised to Trump over the Panorama edit, but rejected his demands for compensation and disagreed there was a basis for a defamation and trade practices claim. It also says that neither BBC or BBC Studios has its principal place of business in Florida, "or is even licenced to do business in the state". Blue Ant previously confirmed it had acquired the distribution rights, but said none of the company's buyers had aired the documentary in the US. During Trump's speech on 6 January 2021, before a riot at the US Capitol, he told a crowd: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. " More than 50 minutes later in the speech, he said: "And we fight.