{"id":243522,"date":"2025-11-04T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243522\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:34:08","slug":"kemi-badenoch-calls-for-sackings-at-bbc-over-panoramas-edited-donald-trump-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243522\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemi Badenoch calls for sackings at BBC over Panorama&#8217;s edited Donald Trump speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The one-hour programme, Trump: A Second Chance?, was broadcast last year and was made for the BBC by independent production company October Films Ltd, which has also been approached for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his speech in Washington DC on 6 January 2021, Trump said: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we&#8217;re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, in Panorama&#8217;s edit, he was shown saying: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to walk down to the Capitol&#8230; and I&#8217;ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two sections of the speech that were edited together were more than 50 minutes apart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The &#8220;fight like hell&#8221; comment was taken from a section where President Trump discussed how &#8220;corrupt&#8221; US elections were. In total, he used the words &#8220;fight&#8221; or &#8220;fighting&#8221; 20 times in the speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After showing the president speaking, the programme played footage of flag-waving men marching on the Capitol, the Telegraph said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the leaked memo, this &#8220;created the impression President Trump&#8217;s supporters had taken up his &#8216;call to arms'&#8221;. But that footage was in fact shot before the president had started speaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 6 January 2021, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, protesting about Joe Biden&#8217;s election victory. Five people died in relation to the riot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The House of Representatives accused Trump of encouraging violence with false claims of election fraud, but he was acquitted of an impeachment charge that he incited a mob to storm the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the Telegraph, the document said Panorama&#8217;s &#8220;distortion of the day&#8217;s events&#8221; would leave viewers asking: &#8220;Why should the BBC be trusted, and where will this all end?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the issue was raised with managers, the memo continued, they &#8220;refused to accept there had been a breach of standards&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to GB News on Tuesday, Badenoch said: &#8220;That is fake news, actually putting different things together to make something look different from what it actually was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And I do think heads should roll. Whoever it was who did that should be sacked, that&#8217;s what Tim Davie should be doing, identifying who put out misinformation, and sacking them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She continued: &#8220;The public need to be able to trust our public broadcaster&#8230; They should not be telling us things that are not true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a corporation that needs to hold itself to the highest standards, and that means that when we see people doing the wrong thing, they should be punished, they should be sacked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former prime minister Boris Johnson also said the corporation needed to respond, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BorisJohnson\/status\/1985431390574252514\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">asking on X:, external<\/a> &#8220;Is anyone at the BBC going to take responsibility &#8211; and resign?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The one-hour programme, Trump: A Second Chance?, was broadcast last year and was made for the BBC by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-243522","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\/243522","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=243522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}