A couple of BBC executives lost their jobs over a scandal at the state-funded network, which aired a deceptively edited video of President Donald Trump's January 6 "Stop the Steal" rally. He's suing them for two counts of $5 billion each.
Good. I'm tired of the media lying to push a false narrative. Here, they were obviously making it sound like Trump was going to walk to the Capitol with them, ready to fight. They pieced together two parts of his speech that were more than 50 minutes apart. This was no accident … they had a narrative ready to go and just needed the right quote, even if they had to make it up. It's like when NBC News edited George Zimmerman's 911 call to make him sound like it was he who brought up the issue of Trayvon Martin's race, not the 911 dispatcher.
I'm old enough to remember when NBC News rigged General Motors trucks with incendiary devices to make it look like they'd explode if hit.
Trump has already received settlements from ABC News and CBS News. It seems neither of the networks wanted the case to end up in court. I'm guessing the BBC will fight back, though.
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has officially filed a $10 BILLION lawsuit against BBC for their deceptive edit of his speech, which was intended to look like he was calling for vioIence on J6
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 16, 2025
BANKRUPT that foreign fake news rag, 47!
An example MUST be set! 🇺🇸🔥 pic.twitter.com/deAS2uL4mh
It looks like the BBC wasn't the only outlet to alter Trump's speech. Sweden's SVT also edited Trump's speech to make it sound like he was calling for an insurrection.
HOLY SMOKES. Swedish Media @svt also appears to have EDITED Trump’s speech on January 6th to make it look like he called for an insurrection, just like the BBC didpic.twitter.com/2EyavBf7wh
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 13, 2025
Again, I'm personally glad that Trump takes these issues seriously and doesn't let them slide. All of these news networks know exactly what they're doing — altering reality.
I just don’t know why they even tried to do this. It’s so easily proven that he clearly never said that.
— 🇺🇸 MAGA Michelle S 🇺🇸 (@MAGAMichelleS69) December 16, 2025
Because they thought they were going to be able to stomp him into history and make sure he never became president again.
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 16, 2025
They were wrong.
Bring on the BBC wing of the Trump Presidential Library
— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) December 16, 2025
If the edit was deceptive, accountability matters. Do media outlets ever face real consequences anymore? 🇺🇸
— Tony Lane 🇺🇸 (@TonyLaneNV) December 16, 2025
If you can deceptively edit a sitting President to frame him for violence, you are not journalism, you are an information warfare shop.
— rowdyamerican (@rowdyamerican69) December 16, 2025
Discovery is going to be delicious. Make them pay.
I hope it goes to trial, and I hope he wins. Everyone freaked out when they thought there was foreign election interference coming from Russia, but the real foreign election interference was coming from the U.K. and Sweden.
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