A presumption of the BBC gathering arsenic BBC Director-General Tim Davie and Head of News Deborah Turness person resigned aft revelations that a documentary astir U.S. President Donald Trump contained edited and misleading footage related to the 2021 Capitol riot, successful London, United States connected November 10, 2025.
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BBC News said connected Monday the broadcaster had received a missive from U.S. President Donald Trump threatening ineligible enactment implicit the edit of a documentary broadcast a week earlier the U.S. statesmanlike election.
The BBC has acknowledged the Trump code edit gave a misleading content and should person been handled much carefully.
The documentary broadcast past twelvemonth had spliced unneurotic 2 parts of a Trump code truthful helium appeared to beryllium encouraging the Capitol Hill riot of January 2021.
Samir Shah, the president of the publicly-funded broadcaster, said successful an interrogation with BBC News that it was "considering" however to respond to Trump's communication.
When prompted astir whether Trump would beryllium suing the BBC, Shah said: "I bash not cognize that yet, but he's a litigious fellow, truthful we should beryllium prepared for each outcomes."
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