As RedState reported, the BBC was involved in a scandal where they edited parts of what President Donald Trump said on Jan. 6, 2021, in a Panorama documentary, making it look as though Trump was encouraging people to be violent at the U.S. Capitol.
Trump threatened a $1 billion lawsuit if they didn’t retract their “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements.” Then BBC News CEO Deborah Turness and BBC director-general Tim Davie resigned. Turness claimed that there wasn’t any “institutional bias.”
BBC Engaged in Edits of Trump’s J6 Speech
Now, Trump has gotten a win with the lawsuit threat, with the BBC apologizing for the edit.
“Lawyers for the BBC have written to President Trump’s legal team in response to a letter received on Sunday,” a BBC spokesperson said Thursday. “BBC chair Samir Shah has separately sent a personal letter to the White House making clear to President Trump that he and the corporation are sorry for the edit of the president’s speech on 6 January 2021, which featured in the programme.” [….]
“While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim,” the spokesperson added.
They said they would not be airing the piece again on any of their platforms.
They’re hoping to head off the lawsuit with the apology, but it may not be enough. Because now there’s another problem.
According to The Telegraph, there was a similar edit to a BBC Newsnight report in 2022 about Trump and Jan. 6.
In response to the latest revelations, a spokesman for his legal team said it was “now clear that BBC engaged in a pattern of defamation against President Trump”.
Like Panorama, the Newsnight edit made it look as if the US president had urged supporters to walk to the Capitol building with him to “fight like hell” by linking statements made nearly an hour apart in his speech.
A former White House chief of staff criticised the BBC on air at the time for “splicing” the footage, but his concerns were ignored by Kirsty Wark, the Newsnight presenter.
A whistleblower told The Telegraph’s Daily T podcast that a further discussion the following day was also shut down.
That tends to blow up the excuse of a “mistake” or just one bad edit.
Plus, I would note, when the media was spreading the misleading Epstein email stuff over the last day, the BBC tweeted this out.
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein alleged that US President Donald Trump spent hours with sex trafficking victim, newly released emails show
Follow live: https://t.co/M5oKHhQUsB
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) November 12, 2025
READ MORE: House Oversight Dems’ Despicable Attempted Gotcha on Trump and Epstein Is Failing Spectacularly
You have to make two separate clicks on their links before you find out that the Epstein victim mentioned is Virginia Giuffre, who consistently said she never saw Trump do anything wrong.
I’m thinking the BBC isn’t going to be able to get out of this one with just that one apology.
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