The far-left American news media weren’t the only outlets who did their best to destroy President Trump just before the 2024 election.
So also did the far-left, hate-Trump BBC, the government news operation funded by a mandatory license fee, The Telegraph disclosed yesterday.
The global network “doctored” a Trump speech to make it appear as if he told supporters who attended the mostly peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to start what Democrats and their Media Megaphone falsely called an “insurrection.”
The revelation appears in an internal whistleblower’s memorandum.
Another Big Lie
The not-so-shocking disclosure reveals just how deeply leftists in the media hated Trump.
“A Panorama programme, broadcast a week before the [2024] US election, ‘completely misled’ viewers by showing the president telling supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to ‘fight like hell,’” when in fact he said he would walk with them ‘to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,’” the leading newspaper explained:
The “mangled” footage was highlighted in a 19-page dossier on BBC bias, which was compiled by a recent member of the corporation’s standards committee and is now circulating in government departments.
Surprise, surprise, the newspaper continued, the document claimed the leftist program put words in Trump’s mouth, making him “‘say’ things [he] never actually said.” A network official or officials melded words from the speech’s beginning with those he uttered “nearly an hour later.”
Here is what Trump says in the footage from Trump: A Second Chance?:
We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country anymore.
The internal document explains what Trump really said, the newspaper continued:
In reality, the first part of Trump’s speech: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you,” came 15 minutes into the speech. The second half of the sentence that was aired by Panorama, “and we fight. We fight like hell…” came 54 minutes later.
Fifteen minutes into the speech, Trump actually said: “We are gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it. The fact that he did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reasons there were no federal charges for incitement to riot.
And that wasn’t the only cardinal sin BBC committed.
Trump: A Second Chance “also showed flag-waving men marching on the Capitol … after the president spoke” even though “the footage was shot before Mr Trump had even started speaking.” (Emphasis added.)
Result: Viewers likely believed that the marchers followed Trump’s orders.
Bias against Trump isn’t the only example of the network’s misdeeds, the newspaper reported. The document also shows BBC Arabic service’s bias on covering of the war in Gaza and accuses “the corporation of ‘effective censorship’ of its coverage of the transgender debate.”
Reaction
Reaction to the news was swift. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants heads at BBC to roll.
“This is a total disgrace,” he wrote on X:
The BBC has doctored footage of Trump to make it look as though he incited a riot — when he in fact said no such thing. We have Britain’s national broadcaster using a flagship programme to tell palpable untruths about Britain’s closest ally. Is anyone at the BBC going to take responsibility — and resign?
Donald Trump, Jr. is equally outraged: “The FAKE NEWS ‘reporters’ in the UK are just as dishonest and full of shit as the ones here in America!!!!” he wrote.
“It’s no wonder that fewer people are paying the BBC licence fee every single year,” Reform UK chief Nigel Farage said.
A former BBC talker nailed the network on X:
This is no surprise to me. I presented news and current affairs programmes on the BBC on four stations from 1993 to 2011. The biased groupthink among its journalists was outrageous and had to be fought and rebalanced every day.
A Big American Lie About J6
The BBC wasn’t the only J6 liar.
The memorandum from the U.S. House managers of Trump’s second impeachment includes a big lie: that Capitol Hill police officer Brian Sicknick died because an “insurrectionist” struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher.
The memo relied heavily on the leftist media and contains just six footnoted references to court affidavits from law-enforcement agents. So the Democrats’ Mainstream Media Information Ministry put together part of the case against Trump.
“The insurrectionists killed a Capitol Police officer by striking him in the head with a fire extinguisher,” the House memo says, citing a story in The New York Times: “A Capitol Police officer dies from injuries sustained during the pro-Trump rampage.”
That story followed this one: “He Dreamed of Being a Police Officer, Then Was Killed by a Pro-Trump Mob.”
The Times was forced to correct those two reports, but did so only more than a month later, despite a report from ProPublica on January 8 that revealed the cause of Sicknick’s death: a stroke. The Washington, D.C., medical examiner confirmed that report.
The newspaper corrected its inflammatory fire-extinguisher yarn on February 15, 13 days after the Democrats published their phony impeachment memorandum. The Times and House Democrats should have known on January 8 that Sicknick died of a stroke.
