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Bombshell UK Report Reveals BBC ‘Doctored’ Trump Footage to Make It Look Like He Called for Jan 6 Violence
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Mon, November 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM PST
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The BBC “doctored” video of a speech President
Donald Trump gave to make it appear like he was calling on his supporters to “fight” and be violent during the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot, according to a
bombshell report from
The Telegraph on Monday.
Editors for
Panorama, the BBC’s longest-running investigative series, duped viewers during an October 2024 special by altering the sequence of a speech Trump gave in 2021.
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell,” Trump is heard saying on the program.
In reality, he said: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”
Trump, a moment later, added he wanted his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard — something that was left out of the 2024 special, titled
Trump: A Second Chance?
An internal UK government report, which
The Telegraph’s story is based on, found the show “completely misled” viewers with its editing.
“Examining the charge that Trump had incited protesters to storm Capitol Hill, it turned out that
Panorama had spliced together two clips from separate parts of his speech. This created the impression that Trump said something he did not and, in doing so, materially misled viewers,” wrote
Michael Prescott, a media advisor who led the report on BBC bias.
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The Telegraph also noted that beyond warping Trump’s speech, the documentary showed a number of men waving American flags after the president spoke. But that incorrectly “created the impression Trump’s supporters had taken up his ‘call to arms,'” the report said, because the footage of the men was shot
before Trump had started speaking.
The
Panorama documentary was made by
Matthew Hill, a BBC filmmaker, and edited by
Karen Wightman, a veteran of the program since 2002.
Monday’s report comes a day after the president spoke to
60 Minutes in the U.S.
Trump applauded CBS for its new boss, Paramount Skydance CEO
David Ellison, and he
also cheered Bari Weiss becoming the new editor-in-chief of CBS News.
Larry Ellison, David’s billionaire father, is a close ally of Trump. The president also gloated that he got Paramount to
pay him “a lotta money” to settle a lawsuit he brought over how 60 Minutes edited an interview with ex-Vice President
Kamala Harris.
Watch the difference in the BBC’s version of Trump’s speech with the real version, via the X post above.
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