THE BBC “doctored” a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot in 2021, according to a leaked memo.
A Panorama episode broadcast a week before last year’s US election “completely misled” viewers by how it spliced together January 6 footage.
The BBC spliced together three separate parts of Mr Trump’s speech into what appeared to be one sentence, according to The Telegraph.
In the programme, Mr Trump appeared to say: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you and we fight.
“We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not gonna have a country any more.”
But what Mr Trump said was: “We’re gonna walk down, and I’ll be there with you…we’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and we’re gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.
“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Around 54 minutes later, when Mr Trump was talking about elections being “corrupt”, he said: “We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country any more.”
It is in a dossier on bias by an ex-member of the BBC’s standards committee, which claims executives ignored its own watchdog’s complaints, according to The Telegraph.
The Panorama special Trump: A Second Chance? was broadcast in October last year.
