The BBC is facing renewed scrutiny after reports emerged that its Newsnight programme edited footage of Donald Trump’s 6 January 2021 speech in a way that made it appear he directly incited his supporters to riot, a claim the BBC is now investigating.
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Revelations about the BBC Newsnight edit follow that of a similar edit in a 2024 BBC Panorama documentary, which led to the resignations of BBC Director General Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness. As explained in The Telegraph’s video below, the Panorama combined a statement in Mr. Trump’s speech about walking to the Capitol with a later remark about fighting, which was made 54 minutes after the initial call to march.
Two years before the Panorama documentary, on 9 June 2022, BBC Newsnight aired a similar clip as part of a report by Kirsty Wark. As with Panorama, Newsnight spliced the clip from parts of Mr. Trump’s speech which were 54 minutes apart to make it appear that Trump said, “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and we’re gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women – and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell you aren’t gonna have a country any more.” And the footage then cuts immediately to scenes of people fighting.
On Newsnight, after the footage was played, Wark interviewed Mick Mulvaney, a former White House chief of staff, who criticised the BBC on air for “splicing” the footage, but Wark ignored his concerns and moved on with the programme. After 30 years working for BBC’s Newsnight, Wark left the programme in July 2024.
A whistle-blower, David Chaudoir, a former graphic designer for Newsnight, stated that concerns about the clip were raised during an editorial meeting the following day but were brushed off by an editorial editor. At the time, Jonathan Munro was interim director of news and current affairs with ultimate responsibility for Newsnight.
Yesterday, the BBC caved in and apologised for the Panorama edit, stating it unintentionally created the impression of a single continuous call for violence, though it disputes the basis for a defamation claim. However, this may not be the end of the matter.
In response to the Newsnight revelations, a spokesman for Mr. Trump’s legal team said it was “now clear that the BBC engaged in a pattern of defamation against President Trump.”
As The Telegraph noted:
The disclosure risks plunging the corporation further into crisis, after the Panorama edit was disclosed in an internal dossier on bias that was leaked to The Telegraph.
It is also likely to prompt fresh questions about the future of Jonathan Munro, Ms Turness’s deputy, who has been put in charge of the BBC’s overall news operation since her departure.
At the time of the broadcast, Mr Munro was interim director of news and current affairs with ultimate responsibility for Newsnight.
Given that the Newsnight footage was broadcast more than two years before Panorama doctored the same speech, and concerns were raised at the time, it also risks triggering new scrutiny of the claim that Panorama’s edits were an innocent mistake.
BBC Newsnight also doctored Trump’s speech, The Telegraph, 13 November 2025
Related:
- BBC Newsnight is also accused of doctoring Donald Trump speech: Edited clip of Capitol Hill address aired two years before Panorama and bosses ‘ignored concerns’, Daily Mail, 13 November 2025
- Is BBC anti-Trump? What are the new allegations against the British broadcaster? Firstpost, 14 November 2025
Featured image: BBC faces fresh claim of misleading Trump edit, BBC, 13 November 2025
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https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/5hO08tKyfMY corruption everywhere
Doubt ever been any totally truthful Press anywhere in World.
A bit of truth is not whole truth but can deceptively appear to be whole.
Is BBC now smoke-screen for rest of them?
2020 all news corporations, local rags too, only one ‘story’.
Internet now nearly only one ‘story’.
Unsurprising many journalists become successful novelists, given their practise writing short ‘stories’.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/FSu_IfJM2pc Edmonton
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/X89dM2U4kjQ if you aren’t scared you should be ..
it’s now high time that the BBC was dissolved – it’s ong exceeded it’s use-by date & is no longer fit for purpose as a broadcaster !
They’ve been doing this for years: Reversed footage of a police charge and people throwing sandwich boxes at a Criminal Justice Act Rally that I was at back in the mid 90s… Imagine what they can do with AI…!!
I trust all those talking heads on the View etc who repeatedly accused The President of inciting a riot will now apologise. I won’t hold my breath.
For years, we’d wondered why so many people thought Trump had intentionally incited his supporters to violence on Jan 6th, 2020. It wasn’t until we recently saw the obviously misleading clips produced by the BBC, which had been widely shared, that we understood.
We almost never watch or read mainstream news and most social media, since they are obvious tools of influence and control.
We ignore msm and most social media, and are aware that most social media platforms are also tool to manipulate us all- while collecting “data” – details about our private lives; details stored ‘forever’; details used to profile us and more effectively control what we think & believe- thereby controlling what we do.
Private details about us which are “data mined”, packaged, sold & re-sold to the highest bidder. Including corporations, which are often tools of those who seek to gain profit & power by exploiting actual people. And government, including police- in clear violation of our rights under Amendment IV of the Constitution for the U.S.A., and corresponding portion of every State Constitution.
“The right the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects [including electronic devices] against unreasonable searches & seizures shall not be violated,
and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Not only is this unconstitutional, the deliberate circumvention of constitutional prohibitions is evidence of that the individuals who volunteered to serve We the People in government positions who obtain private “data” on citizens is a violation of “the supreme Law of the Land”.
It’s like hiring someone to do ‘hit’, then claiming that ‘I didn’t kill him’. In that scenario both the hitman and the one hiring him are guilty.
More on the dangers of Big Tech corporations:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender_category/censorship-surveillance/