BBC apologizes after getting caught editing Trump's J6 speech
The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) just apologized to President Donald Trump.
It did so, according to Fox News, after the media outlet was caught editing the speech that Trump gave on Jan. 6, 2021.
The edit was clearly designed to push the narrative - the false narrative - that Trump incited the riot that took place at the U.S. Capitol on that day. Take a look:
NEW: BBC to apologize for deceptively editing President Trump’s January 6 speech in an effort to make it look like he encouraged violence at the Capitol.
The apology letter is reportedly expected to come early next week.
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$1 billion legal threat
Fox News explains what it is that BBC edited out of Trump's speech.
Per the outlet:
The BBC has been hit with an onslaught of criticism over a BBC Panorama documentary about Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, speech that he delivered before the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Critics believe the documentary was misleading because it omitted Trump urging supporters to protest "peacefully," and stitched together remarks the president made nearly an hour apart to make it appear like one long statement.
Trump and his legal team rapidly responded to the news by threatening to bring a $1 billion lawsuit if the BBC did not immediately retract what he referred to as its "false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements."
Thus far, however, it does not appear as though any lawsuit has officially been brought.
Newsmax reports:
Donald Trump's legal team said on Thursday the president has not yet filed a lawsuit against the BBC over the broadcaster's editing of a speech he made in 2021 on the day of the Capitol protests.
Is the apology enough?
As mentioned, the BBC has now apologized to Trump.
It said:
We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech, rather than excerpts from different points in the speech, and that this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action.
The company added, "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."
In addition to the apology, BBC director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness have resigned.
Whether this will be enough to avoid the lawsuit from Trump remains to be seen.
