‘We should have acted earlier’: BBC chair Samir Shah on Trump documentary

Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn (£760m) after his 6 January 2021 speech was edited to put together two sentences that were actually 54 minutes apart. The BBC chair, Samir Shah, explained on Monday that the decision to edit the US president’s speech in such a way had been discussed within the organisation but admitted that action should have been taken earlier. Shah accepts that the edit gave ‘the impression of a direct call for violent action’ and was ‘an error of judgment’