Now the BBC has overcorrected—albeit in the other direction. On Bluesky, historian Rutger Bregman just charged that the broadcaster cut a line from a BBC lecture he delivered, in which he described Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
Asked for comment on Bregman’s charge, a spokesperson for the BBC emailed me this: “All of our programmes are required to comply with the BBC’s editorial guidelines, and we made the decision to remove one sentence from the lecture on legal advice.”
There is something deeply perverse in this outcome. Even if you grant Trump’s criticism of the edit of his January 6 speech—never mind that as the violence raged, Trump essentially sat on his hands for hours and arguably directed the mob to target his vice president—the answer to this can’t be to let Trump bully truth-telling into self-censoring silence.
On one side we had an establishment propping up an elderly man in obvious mental decline. On the other we had a convicted reality star who now rules as the most openly corrupt president in American history. When it comes to staffing his administration, he is a modern day Caligula, the Roman emperor who wanted to make his horse a consul. He surrounds himself with loyalists, grifters, and sycophants.
It should go without saying that Trump’s threats and bullying—along with the corrupt uses of the power of the state as weapons against critics—are really about preventing the airing of truths that displease Trump. We just saw the Defense Department take the extraordinary step of launching an investigation into Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona over his participation in a video warning members of the military and intelligence services against following illegal orders.
Indeed, as I’ve argued, there are strong grounds for believing that Trump actually has delivered illegal orders, most obviously with his bombings in the Caribbean Sea. It is that reality that Trump does not want to hear discussed. This week, Trump bizarrely tweeted out a picture of the plaque at West Point, thinking it supports his argument that those Democrats committed sedition. In fact, it describes it as a civilizational achievement that the U.S. military places loyalty to the Constitution and the law over loyalty to a “leader,” i.e., one man. Is there any feature of Trump’s presidency that’s more central than his demand for fealty to one man—himself—over the Constitution and the rule of law?
What’s perhaps most galling about the BBC edit is that even if you disagree with the assertion that Trump is the “most openly corrupt president in American history,” it’s obviously legitimate grounds for intellectual inquiry and debate. The BBC’s annual Reith Lectures have for decades featured some of the leading intellectual figures of the day, beginning with Bertrand Russell just after World War II. They are a flagship achievement of public broadcasting. To omit this explicit mention of Trump’s world-historical corruption from one of those storied lectures is an unnerving new turn in the annals of elite capitulation.
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