This Monday the BBC received a letter from the American president, donald trumpwith a threat about undertaking “legal action” after the controversy sparked by the editing of a documentary about Trump and the incidents at the Capitol in 2021.
“We will review the letter and respond directly in due course,” said a spokesperson for the British public corporation, who did not detail the content of the letter or what the alleged threats consisted of.
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The president of the BBC, Samir Shah, said this Monday in an interview with the BBC that he was unaware of the existence of the legal threats but assured that Trump is “a very contentious guy,” so the network is “prepared for any scenario.”
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Pressure on the public corporation increased after The Daily Telegraph newspaper published internal documents on Tuesday indicating that ‘Panorama’ was able to manipulate the audience by self-servingly editing a Trump speech, so that it appeared that he directly encouraged the assault on the Capitol in the United States.
This led to the resignation of both the network’s general director, Tim Davie, and the director of news and head of BBC News, Deborah Turness, on Sunday.
In a letter addressed to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the British Parliament, Shah acknowledged an “error of judgment” in the editing of that report, apologized and stated that more than 500 complaints have been received on this issue.
View of the BBC headquarters in London, United Kingdom, this Monday. Photo: EFE/Andy Rain
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“The purpose of editing the clip was to convey the message of President Trump’s speech so that the Panorama audience could better understand how it had been received by President Trump’s supporters and what was happening at the time,” he explained.
Trump has already sued other media outlets in the US, such as ABC News television, with whom he reached a million-dollar settlement after one of its presenters said that the US president had been found guilty of rape.
He also reached an agreement with CBS News about an interview with the former vice president Kamala Harris which he broadcast on his program ’60 minutes’, and is involved in legal lawsuits with the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press agency, among other media.
