Trump rejects BBC apology for edited speech, threatens lawsuit

US President Donald Trump has rejected a request for an apology from the BBC over the scandal surrounding the editing of his speech and has threatened to sue the British network, the BBC has confirmed. On the other hand, the British public broadcaster announced that it had received the letter from Trump's legal team and that it would respond "in due course".

The scandal was revealed after an investigation by The Telegraph newspaper, which reported that the BBC had altered the content of a video of Trump's speech. The montage was broadcast on the Panorama program last October, just a week before the US presidential election, and according to a 19-page internal memo, the program had "completely misled the public".

In the documentary that dealt with Trump's role in the events of January 6 and the attack on the Capitol, the BBC is accused of combining two different parts of his speech from January 2021. In the broadcast version, Trump was heard telling supporters that "we are going to the Capitol to fight with fire," while the part where he called on them to march "peacefully and patriotically" was cut. In reality, the two parts of the speech were about an hour apart.

After the outcry, BBC president Samir Shah publicly apologized, calling the incident "an error in judgment."

"We accept that the way the speech was edited created the impression of a direct call for violence. The BBC apologises for this error," its letter to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee said.

In the same letter, Shah denies that the BBC has attempted to cover up the issue, contradicting claims by Michael Prescott, the network's former independent ethics adviser, who resigned in June, accusing management of a lack of transparency.

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