"The BBC said Chair Samir Shah sent a personal letter to the White House saying that he and the corporation were sorry for the edit of the speech Trump gave before some of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. It said there are no plans to rebroadcast the documentary that spliced together parts of his speech that came almost an hour apart."
"We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech, rather than excerpts from different points in the speech, and that this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action, the BBC wrote in a retraction. Trump's lawyer had sent the BBC a letter demanding an apology and threatened to file a $1 billion lawsuit."
"The third-party production company that made the film spliced together three quotes from two sections of the 2021 speech, delivered almost an hour apart, into what appeared to be one quote in which Trump urged supporters to march with him and fight like hell. Among the parts cut out was a section where Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully."
The BBC apologized to U.S. President Donald Trump for a misleading edit of his Jan. 6, 2021 speech that suggested a continuous call for violence. Chair Samir Shah sent a personal letter to the White House expressing regret and the corporation retracted the edit. A third-party production company spliced together quotes from two separate parts of the speech, delivered almost an hour apart, producing the mistaken impression that Trump urged supporters to "march with me and fight like hell." The edit omitted a passage where Trump urged peaceful demonstration. The BBC will not rebroadcast the documentary, and senior leaders resigned.
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