Donald Trump has sent a letter to the BBC threatening legal action, amid a deepening crisis at Britain’s main public broadcaster over its coverage of his administration.

The move, first reported by BBC News Monday lunchtime, comes a day after the resignation of the broadcaster’s director general and its most senior news executive. The pair had come under fire over coverage of the U.S. president’s remarks on Jan. 6, 2021 — the day rioters breached the U.S. Congress.

A BBC spokesperson said Monday: “We will review the letter and respond directly in due course.” Details of legal letter were not immediately available.

Director General Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness both announced their exits from the corporation Sunday night, after a week of torrid headlines questioning the broadcaster’s political impartiality, and a series of direct attacks from figures on the right of British politics — and Trump’s own team.

Trump and his press spokesperson Karoline Leavitt — who accused the BBC of peddling “fake news” — have already praised the departures on social media, with Trump saying Sunday night that the two executives were “very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election.”

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