The BBC has been accused by a “whistleblower” of selectively editing Donald Trump‘s January 6 speech to make it appear as if the president was encouraging the 2021 Capitol riot.

A former external adviser to the BBC board took issue with a 2024 episode of Panorama, in which edits were made to Trump’s remarks without them being clearly disclosed to viewers.

Michael Prescott, a managing director at Hanover Communications, compiled a 19-page dossier about the incident and other concerns regarding BBC bias. His report was obtained by The Daily Telegraph.

The issue has sparked fury in the MAGA universe. In a post on X/Twitter, Donald Trump Jr. wrote: “The FAKE NEWS ‘reporters’ in the UK are just as dishonest and full of s*** as the ones here in America!!!!”

In the Panorama documentary, Trump appears to say: “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 anymore.”

He actually said: “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 brave senators and congressmen.”

Some 54 minutes later, when Trump was talking about the U.S. election being “corrupt,” he said: “Something’s wrong here, something’s really wrong, can’t have happened, and we fight. We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna...

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