BBC Apologises To Trump Over Editing Jan 6 Speech – But Rejects Call For $1bn Compensation

Donald Trump's lawyers asked the BBC to pay $1 billion in compensation over its Panorama edit.The BBC has apologised to Donald Trump for the way it edited his speech from January 6 in a Panorama episode – but refused his call for the corporation to pay $1 billion in compensation.The broadcaster said the edit had given “the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action” and promised the episode would never be shown again.Before the violent riot across the Capitol contesting the 2020 election result broke out, Trump told his supporters: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”More than 50 minutes later, he said: “And we fight. We fight like hell.”But in the Panorama edit, it showed Trump as saying: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol... and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.”After a leaked memo brought this issue to the public’s attention, Trump complained his speech had been “butchered” and viewers “defrauded”.The White House is yet to comment on the BBC’s response.The US president’s lawyers had threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn (£759m) in damages unless it issued a retraction, apologised and compensated him.The row over the episode triggered the resignation of both BBC director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness on Sunday.The BBC said on Thursday evening that the Panorama programme had been reviewed.The corporation said: “We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech, rather than excerpts from different points in the speech, and that this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action.”A spokesperson added: “BBC chair Samir Shah has separately sent a personal letter to the White House making clear to President Trump that he and the corporation are sorry for the edit of the president’s speech on 6 January 2021, which featured in the programme.“While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim.”Legal experts have pointed out that the complaint comes outside the one-year window for such claims in the UK, as the episode aired in October 2024.There’s also a question mark over Trump’s claim that it caused harm to his reputation, considering the global coverage of January 6, and the subsequent legal cases.Meanwhile, the Daily Telegraph has also reported on a similarly edited clip released by Newsnight in 2022.Related...'Irony Is Dead': Ex-BBC Journalist Points Out 1 Surprise Character Backing Trump Amid BBC RowRead The Emails Epstein Sent Detailing What Trump KnewTrump Insists He Has An 'Obligation' To Sue BBC: 'They Defrauded The Public'

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