Over the past four years, many mainstream media outlets, in the U.S. and abroad, joined with Democrats to present a biased and distorted view of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot of 2021 and President Donald Trump's alleged culpability for the 2020 election-related unrest.

That includes the U.K.'s BBC, which was just exposed for having "materially misled" its viewers with "doctored" footage of Trump's Jan. 6, 2021, speech, which falsely implied that he'd encouraged the riotous destruction and violence, according to Breitbart.

The BBC's deliberately deceptive editing of a 2024 documentary about Trump was publicly revealed by a now-former independent watchdog who left the broadcaster in frustration after his warnings about the outlet's dishonest and partisan practices were repeatedly ignored.

The BBC's deceptively edited anti-Trump documentary

The U.K.'s The Telegraph exclusively reported that it obtained a 19-page internal report on the BBC's bias and deceptive practices by Michael Prescott, who until June had served for three years as independent external adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee.

Prescott took issue with the network's Panorama program about President Trump's re-election effort that aired just one week before the 2024 presidential election, which focused in part on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and presented to viewers a "distortion of the day’s events" that ought to prompt those viewers to ask themselves "Why should the BBC be trusted, and where will this all end?"

Of particular concern was how the program seamlessly spliced together different portions, some separated by nearly an hour, of Trump's speech that morning to make it appear as though he had explicitly encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol building and "fight like hell" against the police and opposition politicians, when he had instead urged them to "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

The report also called out the program's deceptive use of footage of people headed toward the Capitol that "created the impression Trump’s supporters had taken up his 'call to arms,'" when, in fact, that footage had been filmed more than an hour before Trump even began his address.

Warnings about evident bias were "dismissed or ignored" by executives

The Telegraph noted that, according to Prescott's report, the BBC's "mangled" editing of President Trump's remarks to make him appear to "'say' things [he] never actually said," along with other out-of-context Jan. 6 footage, "completely misled" viewers about what went down that day at the U.S. Capitol building.

He further highlighted the program's "distinctly anti-Trump stance," in that it featured interviews with 10 Trump critics but just one Trump supporter, and questioned why no similarly critical documentary was made about Trump's 2024 Democratic opponent, then-Vice President Kamala Harris.

A cover letter accompanying the report noted that Prescott's repeated warnings to the BBC's senior executives and managers about bias and dishonesty -- in this case and in other instances, such as coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza -- were "dismissed or ignored," and detailed how his "despair at inaction" by the network prompted his eventual exit in frustration.

"I departed [from the advisory role] with profound and unresolved concerns about the BBC," Prescott explained. "My view is that the Executive repeatedly failed to implement measures to resolve highlighted problems, and in many cases simply refused to acknowledge there was an issue at all."

The BBC could face consequences for its "fake news" about Trump

President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., shared on his X account The Telegraph's story about the BBC's anti-Trump bias, and wrote, "The FAKE NEWS 'reporters' in the UK are just as dishonest and full of shit as the ones here in America!!!!"

The Telegraph noted that Nigel Farage, the pro-Trump leader of the U.K.'s right-wing Reform party, quipped about the bombshell exposition, "It’s no wonder that fewer people are paying the BBC licence fee every single year."

The chair of the House of Commons' culture, media and sport select committee, Caroline Dinenage, said, "At a time when trust in both politics and mainstream media is so low, our state broadcaster has an additional responsibility to ensure that it reports contentious and potentially inflammatory issues with a straight bat."

"These allegations are extremely worrying and come at a critical time for the BBC. The DCMS committee will meet tomorrow and will no doubt discuss the implications of this," she added, and also noted that "no options are off the table" in terms of the impending discussions about the BBC's royal charter and state funding that are up for renewal in 2027.