Donald Trump filed an amended $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC in Florida on August 12, 2026, arguing that a “Panorama” documentary deceptively edited his January 6 speech and interfered in the 2024 U.S. election. The legal filing says hundreds of Americans may have watched the film, but the BBC’s own data points to a far smaller and less certain number. The documentary, titled “Trump: A Second Chance?,” was produced by October Films and released shortly before the 2024 presidential election. Although the film was blocked from ordinary U.S. access on BBC iPlayer, Trump’s lawyers argue that it was still viewed in America and use that claim as part of the Florida case. The Viewership Receipts Are Doing a Lot of Heavy Lifting According to deposition testimony from BBC digital distribution director Richard Cooper, the documentary received about 570,000 iPlayer streams worldwide. Only 0.05% of those streams, or roughly 285, came from IP addresses that might have been located in the United States, while approximately 34 may have been connected to Florida. Cooper cautioned under oath that an American IP address does not prove a stream physically originated in the United States. He said the Florida-linked activity was associated with an internet provider connected to a cruise ship company, and he clarified that the totals covered the entire period the documentary remained available rather than only the days before the election. The BBC kept “Trump: A Second Chance?” on iPlayer for roughly a year before removing it and is defending the lawsuit while acknowledging problems with the edit. BBC chair Samir Shah apologized for the documentary and called the altered presentation of Trump’s speech an “error of judgment,” leaving the court to sort out whether the disputed edit caused legally actionable harm and whether enough U.S. viewers saw it to matter.