Douglas V. Gibbs ——Bio and Archives--November 13, 2025

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The British Broadcasting Corporation’s doctored edit of Trump’s January 6 speech confirms what we’ve long been warning: the mainstream media’s war on truth is global, coordinated, and deeply dishonest.

In a stunning admission of media malpractice, the BBC has ignited its own raging firestorm after airing a deceptively edited clip of President Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech. The edit was so misleading it prompted the resignation of Director-General Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness.

The clip, broadcast on the BBC’s flagship program Panorama just one week before the last U.S. presidential election, spliced together two separate statements made nearly an hour apart, falsely implying that Trump was inciting violence at the Capitol.

Hardly a simple mistake, the timing of the clip was a calculated act of narrative engineering and foreign influence on an American election—a clear effort to sway voters and reinforce the left’s false insurrection storyline. The BBC’s own internal memo, a 19-page document reviewed by The Daily Telegraph, raised serious concerns about the impartiality and editorial integrity of BBC’s personnel in charge of the broadcast. The BBC has since apologized, but the damage was done. Trust has been shattered, and the implications reach far beyond London.

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