A Republican commentator has hit out at the BBC’s “appalling” and “abhorrent” doctoring of Donald Trump footage in their Panorama documentary.
Speaking to GB News, Nora Lee Notzon declared “heads need to roll” despite the broadcaster’s insistence that it has not shown “bias” against the US President.
In its Panorama programme, the BBC made Mr Trump appear 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.”
However, the US President instead told the crowds that “everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”.
Nora Lee Notzon has hit out at the ‘appalling’ and ‘abhorrent’ decision by the BBC to doctor footage of Donald Trump
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Amid the row, Donald Trump’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed the BBC and said the broadcaster is “100 per cent fake news”.
Hitting out at the BBC, Ms Notzon told GB News: “I think it’s absolutely appalling and abhorrent. The BBC is a public service, we’re paying for it. We expect them to report truth, not to deliberately create a lie, and that is exactly what was done when they reported on Trump.
“Not only did they splice language that was almost an hour apart, the footage that they used of people walking to the Capitol was before Trump even arrived to give his speech, so that was malicious. It was deliberate.”
Highlighting that the broadcaster “did nothing” in light of the now-leaked report into the incident, Ms Notzon added: “They had a 19-page report about this, and what did they do? Nothing.”
Calling for an apology from the BBC to Donald Trump for the edit, the Republican commentator stated: “We need not only an apology, we need a head to roll, and it should be criminal for the BBC to produce lies.
“I think everybody here in the UK should be outraged. I think Trump should definitely take legal action because it’s fraud is what it is. It’s trying to intervene in a foreign election, and it’s also akin to a slippery slope to tyranny.”
She fumed: “If we can’t trust the BBC to report facts, we expect this out of China, out of Russia, but not out of the United Kingdom.”
Asked by host Dawn Neesom what the BBC row will mean for the UK’s special relationship with the US, Ms Notzon told GB News: “Now we have to spend our time to do our own research to figure out if the BBC is being biased.
Ms Notzon told GB News that the scandal ‘shouldn’t change the relationship’ between the UK and US
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“Have they deliberately concocted a lie that shouldn’t be happening? I think somebody will take further action, and I think this underscores 100 per cent fake news. What else has happened that we don’t know about?”
She concluded: “The US and UK do have a relationship, and Donald Trump is a big lover of the UK, so I don’t think that’s going to change. And if anything, this just vindicates Donald Trump in fake news and why he created Truth Social.”
A BBC spokesman said in a statement: “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.”