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Lawyers for the BBC have written to President Donald Trump’s legal team, and BBC chief Samir Shah has penned a separate, and personal, letter to the White House, apologizing for the network’s edit of the president’s words that falsely suggested his responsibility for the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
“Lawyers for the BBC have written to President Trump’s legal team in response to a letter received on Sunday,” a BBC spokesperson has confirmed. “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.”
The BBC’s Panorama program about the events that day took comments from Trump, omitted his statement about supporters protesting “peacefully” and linked the comments with remarks an hour apart, “to make it appear like one long statement,” according to a report from Fox News.
The BBC statement added, “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.”
Trump earlier had cited the “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” when he confirmed consideration of a $1 billion lawsuit.
Already, BBC News chief Deborah Turness and BBC director-general Tim Davie have resigned because of the scandal.
At the time he walked away, Turness claimed that, “BBC News is not institutionally biased.”
He added, “Mistakes are made.”
Trump’s legal team had written to the BBC, explained, “the BBC’s reckless disregard for the truth underscores the actual malice behind the decision to publish the wrongful content, given the plain falsity of the statements.”
They demanded a full and fair retraction.
“If the BBC does not comply with the above by November 14, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. EST, President Trump will be left with no alternative but to enforce his legal and equitable rights, all of which are expressly reserved and are not waived, including by filing legal action for no less than $1,000,000,000 (One Billion Dollars) in damages. The BBC is on notice,” their letter warned.
WND previously reported Trump’s lawyers said statements by the network’s “Panorama” documentary were “fabricated and aired by the BBC,” leaving him no other option than to seek legal remedy.
The broadcast segment, called “Trump: A Second Chance,” was aired in 2024, just before the presidential election.
The president’s lawyers charged the BBC intentionally sought to completely mislead its viewers by splicing together three separate parts of President Trump’s speech to supporters.
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is accused of editing a Trump speech to make him seem to back the Capitol riot.
A whistleblower memo says Panorama “completely misled” viewers by cutting key lines
Watch @gordonrayner‘s full breakdown
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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) November 3, 2025
“The documentary showed President Trump telling supporters: ‘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 going to have a country anymore.’”
Trump’s actual statement was: “We’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down any one of you but I think right here, we’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”
Also edited out, according to the letter, was Trump indicating: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
INSANE: BBC Panorama *edited footage* of Trump’s speech to make it look like he encouraged the Capitol Hill riot.
The Trump hating leftists at the BBC broadcast the programme a week before the US election.
Scrap the licence fee. pic.twitter.com/b40Njc9mIp
— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) November 3, 2025
