Donald Trump has lashed out at the BBC over its Panorama edit of his January 6 speech by accusing the broadcaster of being “corrupt, fraudulent and criminal”.
In a new allegation levied at Broadcasting House, the US President suggested the BBC might have used artificial intelligence when doctoring his speech.
Speaking from the White House, the US President said: “The BBC, it was incredible what they did. They had me speaking something I had never said. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
He added: “They put words in my mouth, and they actually said I said some pretty bad things. I didn’t say it. It was AI-generated.”
Mr Trump filed a $10billion lawsuit against the BBC after its Panorama programme spliced together two clips in a 12-second segment from the 2021 Capitol riots in its 2024 Trump: A Second Chance documentary.
In the clip, Mr Trump supposedly said: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell.”
However, it later emerged that the footage had been “mangled” together with a 50-minute gap separating the two moments.
During an appearance alongside Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin, the US President alleged that the BBC goes beyond “fake news”, a phrase the former property tycoon helped popularise during his 2016 White House campaign.
Mr Trump, who admitted he watched the BBC for some “crazy reason” this morning, said: “I am very proud of the term ‘fake news’ because it was my term, I came up with it, but it’s really no longer accurate.
“It’s corrupt, fraudulent, it really is. It’s beyond fake, it’s criminal what they do.”
GB News has approached the BBC for comment.
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