The BBC on Thursday apologized to President Donald Trump for a Panorama documentary that stitched parts of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech together in a way that suggested he advocated violence, but the broadcaster rejected his demand for damages and said it won’t re-air the program. In its fuller explanation, the BBC acknowledged the sequence “showed excerpts taken from different parts of the speech” and “unintentionally created the impression” of a single continuous passage that amounted to “a direct call for violent action,” ITV reported. Trump’s legal team had demanded the BBC withdraw the documentary, apologize and pay compensation; the corporation’s lawyers replied this week, disputing any legal basis for defamation and noting the film will not be rebroadcast “in this form.”
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Published at: 2025-11-13 22:22:35
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