BBC Apologizes as Trump Threatens to Sue Over Speech Edit

The BBC apologized for a misleading edit of remarks by Donald Trump that featured in a documentary last year, prompting a lawsuit threat by the US president and fresh questions about the future of Britain’s national broadcaster.

British Broadcasting Corp. Chairman Samir Shah acknowledged on Monday that the edited footage of Trump’s speech near the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, aired on the Panorama program wrongly gave “the impression of a direct call for violent action.” Shah told the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee in a letter that “the BBC would like to apologize for that error of judgment.”