BBC says it will defend Trump defamation lawsuit over Panorama speech edit
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Chris Ruddy, founder and chief executive of conservative US media outlet Newsmax Media, and an ally of Trump, told the BBC it was difficult to win a defamation lawsuit in the US as "the bar is very high".
But he suggested the BBC should reach a settlement to avoid the cost of litigation, which he estimated could reach between $50m (£37m) and $100m (£74m).
Former BBC Radio controller Mark Damazer said it would be "extremely damaging to the BBC's reputation not to fight the case".
"This is about the BBC's independence and, unlike American media organisations which have coughed up the money, the BBC doesn't have commercial business interests that depend on President Trump's beneficence in the White House," he told BBC Radio Four's Today programme.
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