The BBC "doctored" Donald Trump's January 6 speech to make it appear that the US President was encouraging his supporters to riot in the Capitol, a leaked memo has revealed.
The leaked 19-page dossier, which was shared with The Telegraph by a whistleblower, revealed that a Panorama programme broadcast a week before the 2024 US Presidential Election "completely misled" viewers by showing the 47th President telling his supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to "fight like hell" against his 2020 defeat.
Mr Trump instead insisted that he would walk with his supporters "to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard".
The dossier concluded that Panorama had made Mr Trump "say things [he] never actually said" by "mangling" footage from the start of his speech with a segment from nearly an hour later.
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In the Panorama programme, Mr Trump appears to say: "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 any more."
Meanwhile, the original footage showed the US President told supporters: "We're gonna walk down, and I'll be there with you, we're gonna walk down, we're gonna walk down any one you want but I think right here, we're gonna walk down to the Capitol and we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong ... I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
Around an hour later, Mr Trump added: "Most people would stand there at nine 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."
Donald Trump instead insisted that he would walk with his supporters 'to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard'
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Panorama, which broadcast its Trump: A Second Chance? programme on October 28 last year, also showed flag-waving men marching on the Capitol directly after Mr Trump spoke.
However, the Panorama programme's segment was said to have "created the impression Trump's supporters had taken up his 'call to arms'".
It has since been revealed that the footage was recorded before the 47th President had even started speaking in Washington, DC.
Mr Trump, who was impeached for a second time following the Capitol riot, continues to peddle the unsubstantiated claim that the 2020 US Presidential Election was "rigged" against him.
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The BBC has been hit with a wave of criticism about alleged bias in its coverage
| GETTYThe report's author also warned BBC chairman Samir Shah of the "very, very dangerous precedent" set by Panorama but received no reply.
The "shocking" breaches of impartiality to the notorious "Crowngate" scandal.
"Crowngate" centred around footage of the late Queen Elizabeth II that had been edited to make it look as though she was storming off a photoshoot.
The debacle led to the resignation of one controller at BBC One.
Pro-Trump protesters had stormed the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 | GETTY
The recent report on BBC bias was written by former journalist Michael Prescott.
Mr Prescott, who spent three years as an independent external adviser to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee, left his post after the revelations came to light.
In a letter, Mr Prescott said: "I departed [from the advisory role] with profound and unresolved concerns about the BBC ... my view is that the executive repeatedly failed to implement measures to resolve highlighted problems, and in many cases simply refused to acknowledge there was an issue at all."
He added: "I have been surprised at just how defensive Deborah [Turness] and Jonathan [Munro] in particular have been whenever issues are raised.
Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris just days after the BBC released its controversial Panorama programme
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"Firm and transparent action plans to prevent the re-occurrence of problems are in short supply - and so, as you can see, errors are repeated time and again."
Mr Prescott, who was one of just two independent advisers sitting on the BBC's committee, was also "struck" by the Panorama programme's "distinctly anti-Trump stance".
It featured just one supporter of the then-Republican nominee against 10 known opponents of Mr Trump.
Mr Prescott was also "shocked" that no similar programme had been made examining the then-Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris.
A BBC spokesman told GB News: "While we don't comment on leaked documents, when the BBC receives feedback it takes it seriously and considers it carefully.
"Michael Prescott is a former adviser to a board committee where differing views and opinions of our coverage are routinely discussed and debates."
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