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Thursday, November 20, 2025

BBC ‘materially misled viewers’ by deceptively editing Trump Jan. 6 speech for documentary: whistleblower - New York Post

The BBC used “doctored video” of President Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse and “mangled” the timeline of the day’s events in a documentary last year, according to a whistleblower report.

The damning 19-page report on “BBC bias,” obtained by the Telegraph, was authored by former Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee (EGSC) adviser Michael Prescott, who sent the dossier to the BBC’s governing board after his warnings about the misleading Trump documentary were “dismissed or ignored,” he claimed.

The documentary – “Trump: A Second Chance?” – aired on the BBC’s current events program, “Panorama,” last October and “materially misled viewers” by splicing together clips of Trump’s speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally to make it seem like he incited the riot at the US Capitol, according to Prescott.

The ex-standards adviser notes that the BBC aired footage of Trump appearing to tell rally-goers: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not gonna have a country any more.”

The clip was spliced together from three separate parts of Trump’s speech – with a nearly hour-long gap edited out to make it seem like one fluent sentence.

Trump’s actual remarks were: “We’re gonna walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re gonna walk down, we’re gonna walk down any one you want but I think right here, we’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and we’re gonna cheer on our...



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