{"id":242004,"date":"2025-11-03T20:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242004\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:38:07","slug":"bbc-accused-of-selectively-editing-trump-clip-from-day-of-capitol-attack-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242004\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC accused of selectively editing Trump clip from day of Capitol attack | BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC has been accused of selectively editing a Donald Trump<\/a> speech to make it appear clearer that he encouraged the US Capitol attack, according to a former external adviser to the corporation.<\/p>\n

An edition of Panorama, broadcast a week before the US election, spliced together clips of a Trump speech made on 6 January 2021. The spliced clip suggested that Trump told the crowd: \u201cWe\u2019re going to walk down to the Capitol and I\u2019ll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

The words were taken from sections of his speech almost an hour apart. It did not include a section in which Trump said he wanted supporters \u201cto peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\u201d.<\/p>\n

Concerns about the cut were raised in a memo by Michael Prescott, a former independent external adviser to the BBC\u2019s editorial guidelines and standards committee (EGSC). He left the role in the summer.<\/p>\n

The dossier, first reported by the Telegraph, said the programme made Trump \u201c\u2018say\u2019 things [he] never actually said\u201d by cutting together footage.<\/p>\n

The complaints relate to an hour-long Panorama special called Trump: A Second Chance? broadcast in October 2024. The memo also complained that footage of marchers who appeared to have been inspired by Trump was actually taken before the speech had been made.<\/p>\n

In a covering letter to the dossier, which he sent to the BBC\u2019s board, Prescott reportedly said he was circulating the document out of \u201cdespair at inaction by the BBC executive when issues come to light\u201d.<\/p>\n

Prescott said in his report: \u201cIt was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it. The fact that [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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prescott has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n

A BBC spokesperson said: \u201cWhile we don\u2019t comment on leaked documents, when the BBC receives feedback it takes it seriously and considers it carefully. Michael Prescott is a former adviser to a board committee where differing views and opinions of our coverage are routinely discussed and debated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident risks inflaming the White House\u2019s relationship with the BBC. The Trump administration has previously wrongly accusing the BBC of removing a story about a fatal attack<\/a> near a US-backed food distribution site in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Senior BBC journalists said the White House was point-scoring after Donald Trump\u2019s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, accused the corporation of taking \u201cthe word of Hamas with total truth\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC has been accused of selectively editing a Donald Trump speech to make it appear clearer that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-242004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}