White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has said that the BBC is “100% fake news.” She accused the media outlet of being “purposefully dishonest” over the broadcaster’s depiction of the 2021 United States Capitol riots on January 6th.
The channel has faced criticism in recent days over allegations that it misled viewers by splicing together different segments of President Donald Trump’s remarks that day. According to the BBC’s reported quote, Trump said to supporters: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you and we fight. We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country anymore.”
Those remarks allegedly came about 54 minutes apart. According to a report by RT, The Telegraph says these quotes were altered in order to make it sound like Trump incited a “riot”. However, the protesters, shown marching toward the Capitol immediately after the edited clip, had in fact been caught on film before Trump started addressing supporters.
In remarks to The Telegraph [behind a paywall] published late Friday, Leavitt criticized the BBC for showing “selectively edited” footage of Trump’s speech in the BBC Panorama episode on the event. “They are total, 100 percent fake news that should no longer be worth the time on the television screens of the great people of the United Kingdom,” Leavitt said.
“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.” -Karoline Leavitt
Taxpayers in the United Kingdom are being “forced to foot the bill for a Leftist propaganda machine,” Leavitt added.
In response to the accusation, a spokesperson for the BBC told The Guardian that the BBC’s editorial guidelines and standards committee considers differing views and opinions of its coverage. “While we don’t comment on leaked documents, when the BBC receives feedback, it takes it seriously and considers it carefully,” the spokesperson claimed.
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