Woke pro trans staff at the BBC are reportedly in a “civil war” with the broadcasters governing board over the resignation of top figures following the doctoring of a speech by President Donald Trump in a documentary.
Director General Tim Davie and CEO Deborah Turness both resigned after it emerged that two clips of Trump’s January 6, 2021, speech at the US Capitol were spliced together despite being made nearly an hour apart.
Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion if they don’t make a “full and fair retraction” of the program by Friday, according to the broadcaster.
In a letter to Parliament on Monday, BBC board chair Samir Shah admitted that the “way the speech was edited did give the impression of a direct call for violent action.”
The scandal has now reportedly led to outright “civil war” at the BBC, with “woke pro-trans staff” rebelling against its board, presumably for admitting the mistake.
According to the Daily Mail: Civil war has broken out at the BBC today as one of the executives fired over the doctoring of a Donald Trump speech insisted the corporation remains the ‘world’s most trusted news provider’.
Deborah Turness, who quit as CEO of BBC News yesterday, turned up for work at Broadcasting House in London this morning and said that the corporation is not ‘corrupt’ as the President claims.
But less than an hour later chairman of the BBC board, Samir Shah, said the corporation would like to ‘apologise for that error of judgment’ over the editing of a speech by Donald Trump.
Mr Shah has admitted he may now say sorry personally to the President as it was revealed he has sent a letter threatening legal action against the BBC over a Panorama documentary released ahead of the 2024 election.
‘He’s a litigious fellow. So we should be prepared for all outcomes’, he said.
Insiders have said some senior BBC News staff are at war with the board. Nick Robinson used the Today Programme to give a monologue where he described the board as being in a state of ‘paralysis’.
Sir Keir Starmer has also backed the BBC. His spokesman said the Prime Minister does not believe it is ‘institutionally biased’.
But Nigel Farage has said he has spoken to Donald Trump, who is ‘absolutely enraged’, with the Reform UK leader accusing the ‘biased’ BBC of ‘election interference’.
Director General Tim Davie and Ms Turness resigned yesterday after it emerged Panorama made it seem like Trump told his supporters to go to the Capitol and ‘fight like hell’ on the day of the 2021 riot.
In a letter released this afternoon Mr Shah revealed there have been more than 500 complaints since the publication of an internal memo that raised concerns about the editing of the speech by Donald Trump, adding: ‘We accept that the way the speech was edited did give the impression of a direct call for violent action.’
In an interview with the BBC he added that he didn’t know ‘yet’ if Trump will now sue the BBC, adding he is now considering whether to apologise personally to the President.