GB News star erupts over doctored Trump speech as fans | UK News

A GB News star has urged the BBC to present an clarification after a whistleblower accused the broadcaster of enhancing a Donald Trump speech to make it appear as though he was inciting the Capitol Hill riots in the run-up to last yr’s election. The public service broadcaster included the edited clip in a Panorama programme launched just days before Americans went to the polls, according to The Telegraph. It depicted Trump telling supporters he would go with them to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, to “fight like hell”.

The altered footage “completely misled” viewers, the report said. Speaking to Martin Daubney, GB News Senior Political Commentator Nigel Nelson described the scandal as “absolutely appalling”. He continued: “That’s why we need the explanation from the BBC. There may not be an explanation. It may well be they went ahead to do all the things that have just been outlined.

“The people to look at this are the Commons, Culture, Media, Sport committee. They ought to look into the investigation, launch a report, call the BBC, BBC senior executives including Tim Davie as witnesses so if the BBC will not voluntarily give us an clarification, the MPs will get one.”

Daubney said: “If Donald Trump not only appears at this and decides it is pretend news media, which it’s, it amplifies issues that are damaging to him and complimentary in the direction of his opponents. It went out the week before the presidential election, it is unbelievable it is only come to gentle now. It might have influenced how people voted. Quite a bit of Americans live in Britain and watch the BBC. It was broadcast, we predict, on the world service platform on iPlayer.”

He added: “I put it to you. Donald Trump might sue the BBC into oblivion.”

Viewers were outraged by the news as they raced to social media to call for the BBC to be defunded.

“The BBC needs to be defunded asap. Not match for function, far to biased,” claimed one viewer as a second fumed: “Never trusted the BBC’s reporting before but they actually have hit a new low even for them. ‘BBC Verify’? What a joke.”

A third echoed: “Well, after the latest account of the BBC‘s duplicity re Trump and Hamas, I hope the President bans them from the White House. Even tonight,BBC1 is working a Panorama hit piece on the President’s tech supporters. The BBC wants to be defunded, now.”

Another furious viewer demanded: “F**ok the BBC, end the TV licence and take away their funding.”

A fifth echoed: “Surely it’s time now to defund the BBC.”