BBC says sorry to Donald Trump over doctored Panorama video scandal – after White House accused corporation chiefs of '100 per cent fake news' | Daily Mail Online https://t.co/MqFlTwwdsK
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The BBC is set to apologise over a Panorama episode that used an edited clip of Donald Trump’s speech about the US Capitol riots – after the White House accused the broadcaster of spreading ‘100 per cent fake news’.
The apology letter is reportedly expected to come from BBC chairman Samir Shah, addressing the doctored Trump footage in a letter to Culture Committee chair Dame Caroline Dinenage early next week.
It follows revelations that a memo by Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the BBC’s editorial standards committee, raised alarm in the summer over the way the speech had been ‘doctored’.
Prescott said the corporation ‘mangled’ the clip to make it appear as if the former US President had encouraged the January 6 violence.
The episode, which aired in October 2024, showed Trump telling supporters he would ‘walk to the Capitol’ with them to ‘fight like hell’ – omitting the words he actually used, pledging to walk with them ‘peacefully and patriotically to make your voices heard’.
Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the clip as ‘100 per cent fake news’, saying: ‘This purposefully and dishonestly edited clip by the BBC is further evidence that they are total, 100 per cent fake news that should no longer be worth the time on the television screens of the great people of the United Kingdom.’
Since the Telegraph’s report, Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee has demanded answers from Samir Shah, asking what steps will be taken to address the concerns.
A BBC spokesperson said: ‘The BBC chairman will provide a full response to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Monday.’
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