BBC managers quit over ‘edited Trump speech’
BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness have stepped down following the broadcaster’s reported editing of a 2021 Donald Trump speech in a 2024 documentary.
The Sunday resignations concerned the program’s apparently “showing different parts of Trump’s speech edited into one quote,” the Associated Press reported.
According to the report, the edited version seems to be showing Trump urging followers to “walk down to the Capitol” and “fight like hell” in one continuous sequence during the speech.
The speech that year at a so-called "Save America" rally on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., also saw Trump repeating false claims of election irregularities and telling his fans that by refusing to “fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.”
The remarks were followed by a violent mob of Trump's supporters storming the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the November 2020 presidential election, two months after Trump’s defeat. Their goal was to stop Congress from formally counting the Electoral College votes that confirmed Joe Biden’s victory, but the effort ultimately failed.
The assault resulted in five deaths within 36 hours.
A bipartisan House committee later concluded that the attack was the culmination of a deliberate plan by Trump to subvert the election.
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The White House and pro-Trump media and activists were, however, quick to claim that the documentary had left out a part, during which Trump reportedly asked supporters to march “peaceful and politically.”
Trump, White House gloat
After the resignations, Trump posted a lengthy statement on his Truth Social platform, saying, "The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught ‘doctoring’ my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th.”
He called the resignees “corrupt 'Journalists.” “These are very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election. On top of everything else, they are from a Foreign Country, one that many consider our Number One Ally. What a terrible thing for Democracy!"
Portraying Davie’s resignation as vindication, Trump's spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt posted a screenshot of the BBC news story, which had reported Trump’s “going to war with ‘fake news’ BBC,” and a screenshot of another report reflecting the resignation.
The screenshots were respectively captioned, “Shot” and “Chaser,” in a gloat that seemed to be linking the White House’s reaction to the documentary to the resignation.
In separate remarks, she attacked "this purposefully dishonest, selectively edited clip by the BBC,” calling it “total, 100% fake news that should no longer be worth the time on the television screens of the great people of the United Kingdom.”
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