Nov. 14 (UPI) -- The BBC issued a retraction and a formal apology to U.S. President Donald Trump for edits to a speech he gave ahead of the Jan. 6 riots on Capitol Hill that made it appear as if he was inciting his supporters to violence.
The British public service broadcaster apologized Thursday night via the corrections page on its website, with the apology the lead story across all of its news platforms on television, radio and online during the evening and first thing Friday morning.
BBC Chairman Samir Shah also penned a personal written apology to the White House, however, the BBC indicated it would not be paying compensation, as demanded by Trump.
The retraction said an edition of Panorama titled Trump: A Second Chance, broadcast on Oct. 28, 2024, used excerpts lifted from different parts of Trump's speech in a way that inadvertently made it appear they were contiguous.
The BBC's version had Trump saying, "We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell," when his actual words were, "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women."
