BBC doctored Donald Trump speech a SECOND time as US President threatens legal war

A former White House chief of staff accused the BBC on air of "splicing" the footage, however his concerns were ignored by Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark.

Now, an insider has told The Telegraph a further discussion the day after the broadcast was quickly shut down.

In the Newsnight segment, broadcast on June 9, 2022, Mr Trump appeared to say: "We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and we’re gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell you aren’t gonna have a country anymore."

This links two separate sentences to suggest that Trump was directly telling his supporters to act violently.

What Mr Trump actually told his supporters was: "Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down.

"Anyone you want, but I think right here, we’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them."

Just under an hour later Mr Trump was talking about elections being "corrupt."

He said: "Most people would stand there at 9 o’clock in the evening and say I wanna thank you very much, and they go off to some other life, but I said something’s wrong here, something’s really wrong, can’t have happened, and we fight. We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country any more."

After the footage was played by Newsnight, Ms Wark interviewed Mick Mulvaney, the former White House chief of staff for Mr Trump who resigned from the administration following the storming of the Capitol.

Mr Mulvaney directly accused Newsnight of splicing the footage, adding: "That’s the type of messaging here that so many people in my country find frustrating is that it’s hard to actually get the facts.

"If we’re going to have a debate about what this was and prevent it from happening again, I think part of that is to make sure we’re straightforward in our presentation of what actually happened."

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Former Newsnight graphic designer David Chaudoir told The Telegraph: "Sometimes there would be a little post-mortem of the show from the night before and… somebody brought it up saying, 'What happened with that clip of Trump?'

"One producer said, 'How did that go out’? Why did that happen?'

"The editorial editor, not the VT [video tape] editor, kind of brushed it off. And I thought that that was extraordinary, that something like that had gone out."

There is no evidence that any action was taken in relation to the Newsnight episode.

Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston told GB News: "The argument that bias at the BBC isn't institutionalised is falling apart with each example.

"These aren't mistakes, but editorial decisions that make a mockery of the charter responsibility for impartiality."

A BBC spokesperson said: “The BBC holds itself to the highest editorial standards. This matter has been brought to our attention and we are now looking into it.”