BBC to apologise for editing of Donald Trump speech

Press security Karoline Leavitt described the BBC as '100% fake news'

The news comes following the leak of a BBC memo which suggests the BBC will apologise tomorrow for its editing and airing of the speech, as per the Telegraph.

This comes in the wake of Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary, accusing the BBC of being “purposefully dishonest” and used "selectively edited" footage in its film.

In an interview with the Telegraph, Leavitt described the BBC as "100% fake news" and a "propaganda machine".

She added that watching BBC bulletins on trips to the UK "ruins" her day and claimed taxpayers are being "forced to foot the bill for a leftist propaganda machine".

BBC chair Samir Shah is expected to apologise for the editing choice of the episode.

A BBC spokesperson said: “The BBC chairman will provide a full response to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Monday.”

The Telegraph claim to have seen a leaked document that suggested an episode of BBC's Panorama programme "completely misled" viewers being splicing two parts of the speech together.

The leaked extract of the memo reads: “It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it. The fact that he did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reasons there were no federal charges for incitement to riot.”

The accusations from the White House follow questions from MPs saying that the BBC had "serious questions to answer" about the way it edited a speech by the US president Donald Trump in a BBC Panorama documentary.

Leavitt said:  “This purposefully dishonest, selectively edited clip by the BBC is further evidence that they are total, 100% fake news that should no longer be worth the time on the television screens of the great people of the United Kingdom.

“Every time I travel to the United Kingdom with President Trump and am forced to watch the BBC in our hotel rooms, it ruins my day listening to their blatant propaganda and lies about the president of the United States and all that he’s doing to make America better and the world a safer place.”