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The BBC has apologised for deliberately twisting the words of President Trump on Jan 6th but has stopped short of paying financial compensation. Big mistake.
Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One Trump said:
“We’ll sue them for anywhere between $1bn [£759m] and $5bn, probably sometime next week.”
On Thursday, the BBC said the edit of the 6 January 2021 speech had unintentionally given “the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action” and said it would not be broadcast again.
Rubbish. It was deliberate.
The BBC has been running hit job after hit job on Trump since 2015 but this time, they are bang to rights. The BBC is a global broadcaster and that Panorama programme with the deliberate misrepresentation of Trump’s words would have had around 2 million views. So it clearly did reputational damage to the President and they will have to pay. I can’t see how they avoid this and their lack of humility in accepting this is sickening.
It’s also curious that to the best of my knowledge, no-one in the Panorama team has been reprimanded, let alone sacked. Why is that?
Trump has endured so much from the BBC over the years and now it is payback time. Were Trump to achieve something between $1-£5billion, that might bankrupt the BBC and that would be a service to humanity.
