BBC Newsnight also doctored footage of a Donald Trump speech and ignored concerns that were raised about it, according to reports.
It has emerged that in spliced footage of the speech, which aired in an episode in 2022, Trump was encouraging his supporters to riot, The Telegraph reports.
The footage was edited similarly to a version aired in a Panorama documentary that was broadcast last year, which made it look as if the US president had urged supporters to walk to the Capitol building with him to “fight like hell”.
The Newsnight footage linked statements made nearly an hour apart in his speech.
A former White House chief of staff criticised the BBC on air during the episode for “splicing” the footage.
However, his concerns were ignored by Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark, it is alleged.
Speaking to The Telegraph’s Daily T podcast, a whistleblower said that concerns about the Newsnight footage were raised during an editorial meeting the following morning, but were dismissed.
David Chaudoir, a graphic designer who worked for Newsnight from 2022 to 2024, told The Telegraph’s Daily T podcast that he was present when the clip was discussed.
He explained: “Sometimes there would be a little post-mortem of the show from the night before and… somebody brought it up saying, ‘What happened with that clip of Trump?
“One producer said, ‘How did that go out’? ‘Why did that happen?’ And the editorial editor, not the VT editor, kind of brushed it off. And I thought that that was extraordinary, that something like that had gone out.”
The Newsnight clip, broadcast on 9 June 2022 showed Trump appearing to say: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and we’re gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women – and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell you aren’t gonna have a country any more.”
Responding to reports about the Newsnight episode, a spokesperson for the BBC said the edit of the Donald Trump speech, which appeared to have been spliced together, has been “brought to our attention”, and that they are “looking into it.”
They added: “The BBC holds itself to the highest editorial standards. This matter has been brought to our attention and we are now looking into it.”
The footage was broadcast more than two years before the same speech was edited in the Panorama programme, a move the BBC have since apologised for.
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After reports emerged the BBC doctored the Panorama footage and about other concerns about bias at the corporation, its director-general, Tim Davie, and the chief executive of BBC News, Deborah Turness, resigned.
Jonathan Munro, Ms Turness’s deputy, has been put in charge of the BBC’s overall news operation since her departure.
When the Newsnight episode was broadcast, Mr Munro was interim director of news and current affairs and had ultimate responsibility for Newsnight.
Trump’s lawyers are threatening to sue the BBC for $1bn (£760m) over the Panorama edit, unless the corporation apologises, retracts the footage and offers compensation by Friday.
When he was asked on Fox News yesterday (12 November) if he planned to follow through with his $1bn (£760m) lawsuit, Trump said: “Well, I guess I have to, why not? Because they defrauded the public, and they’ve admitted it.”
The Panorama episode omitted another passage of the US President’s speech where he said he wanted supporters to protest peacefully.
Trump told Laura Ingraham on her show The Ingraham Angle: “They [the BBC] actually changed my Jan 6 speech, which was a beautiful speech, which was a very calming speech, and they made it sound radical.
“And they actually changed it. What they did was rather incredible. They’re showing me the results later on, the results of what they did, how they butchered it up, but it was very dishonest, and the head man quit, and a lot of the other people.”
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