BBC used 'doctored video' of Trump's J6 speech to convince viewers that he started the Capitol riot

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 November 4, 2025

Leftist media outlets worked overtime to make President Donald Trump look bad during his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse, and the BBC appears to be one of the worst offenders.

According to the New York Post, the Telegraph obtained a bombshell report that indicated the BBC used "doctored video" of Trump's speech that day in a documentary and reportedly "mangled" the timeline of events that happened that day in Washington D.C.

The information, which came from a shocking, 19-page whistleblower report, was provided by former Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee (EGSC) adviser Michael Prescott.

Prescott sent the report to the BBC’s governing board after he claimed that his concerns about the doctored video and timeline were "dismissed or ignored."

What's going on?

Leftists and their media allies worked to gaslight the public into thinking that President Trump had incited the Capitol riot that took place that day, and using doctored video and lies was an easy way to accomplish that mission.

The Post noted:

The documentary – “Trump: A Second Chance?” – aired on the BBC’s current events program, “Panorama,” last October and “materially misled viewers” by splicing together clips of Trump’s speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally to make it seem like he incited the riot at the US Capitol, according to Prescott.

The BBC, during its program, reportedly spliced together three parts of Trump's speech to make it sound like the president gave his followers marching orders to riot.

“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," Trump said in the spliced version of his speech.

The problem is that between some of those phrases, there was as much as an hour-long gap.

The real version of Trump's speech was, "We’re gonna walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re gonna walk down, we’re gonna walk down any one you want but I think right here, we’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and we’re gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women."

Concerning developments

Prescott warned that the splice speech clearly made it look like Trump ordered his followers to begin rioting when, in fact, he didn't do that at all. He called the spliced video "shocking."

"This created the impression that Trump said something he did not and, in doing so, materially misled viewers," Prescott said.

The Post added:

The BBC program also made it appear as if members of the Proud Boys, an extremist right-wing group, were inspired to march toward the Capitol Building after Trump’s speech.

"It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it," Prescott wrote in the report. "The fact that [Mr Trump] did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reasons there were no federal charges for incitement to riot."

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