A comparison of the original and edited footage shows how the BBC selectively edited a Donald Trump speech, resulting in the organisation being accused of making it appear clearer that he encouraged the US Capitol attack.
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An edition of Panorama, broadcast a week before the 2024 US election, spliced together clips of a Trump speech made on 6 January 2021. The spliced clip suggested that Trump told the crowd: ‘We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell.’ The words were taken from sections of his speech almost an hour apart. Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, and the head of BBC News have since resigned
BBC accused of selectively editing Trump clip from day of Capitol attack ► https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/03/bbc-accused-selectively-editing-trump-clip-capitol-attack
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage ► https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/09/tim-davie-expected-to-resign-bbc-director-general
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