BBC chair apologizes for edited Trump speech.

BBC chairman Samir Shah has apologized for an “error in judgment” regarding the editing of a speech by Donald Trump in a Panorama documentary. His response followed the resignations of the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, and the head of news, Deborah Turness, on Sunday night. They faced criticism for the program’s implication that Trump encouraged the Capitol Hill riot in January 2021.

In a letter to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Shah stated, “We accept that the way the speech was edited did give the impression of a direct call for violent action.” The edit combined two sections of the speech that were originally separated by more than 50 minutes, which was criticized in a leaked internal BBC memo published by the Telegraph newspaper last Monday.

Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC over the edit, and the BBC has stated it will respond in due course.