Newsnight is the second flagship BBC news programme accused of editing the speech to make it appear Trump made a more explicit call for violence from his supporters
BBC’s Newsnight has been accused of editing a Donald Trump speech in a way that made it appear that he made a more explicit call for violent protest ahead of the Capitol riots.
The corporation is already reeling from the resignation of the director general, Tim Davie, and the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness, which followed the splicing together of the same Trump speech in an edition of Panorama last year.
Trump has since filed a billion-dollar lawsuit in a Florida court, according to the White House. The BBC is currently considering how to respond to Trump’s legal claim.
The Telegraph said it had found an edition of Newsnight from 2022 which also contained a splicing together of the speech in a similar way. It did not appear that the edit alerted viewers to the cut.
