Resounding resignations shake his foundations and provoke his wrath.
BBC director-general Tim Davey and BBC News chief executive Deborah Ternes have resigned after criticism they edited, distorting a speech by the president of the United States, in an episode of BBC Panorama broadcast a week before the US election. BBC chairman Sameer Shah is expected to apologize today. The revelation was made by the Telegraph newspaper and Michael Prescott.
The criticisms relate to excerpts from different parts of Trump’s speech on January 6, 2021, which were linked together in the documentary ‘Trump: A Second Chance?’, broadcast by the BBC in the week before the 2024 election.
The edited clip appeared to show Trump telling the crowd: “We’re going to walk to the Capitol and I’m going to be with you and we’re going to fight. We will fight fiercely.” However, those phrases came from parts of the speech nearly an hour apart and did not include the part where Trump said he wanted his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically express their voices.”
Donald Trump’s reaction
The incident provoked an angry reaction from Donald Trump, who spoke on Truth Social about “corrupt journalists”.
“Top people at the BBC, including Tim Davey, the boss are all resigning/sacked because they were caught ‘faking’ my very good (perfect!) January 6th speech.
“Thank you to the Telegraph newspaper for exposing these corrupt journalists. These are very dishonest people who tried to get on the scales of the presidential election. On top of everything else, they come from a foreign country, a country that many consider our No. 1 ally. What a terrible thing for the Republic!” he wrote
