The BBC thought they could get away with manipulating American voters.
They were dead wrong about what happened next.
And John Kennedy torched the BBC for this dirty trick against Trump.
BBC bosses resign after Trump editing scandal explodes
The British Broadcasting Corporation spent decades building a reputation as the world's most trusted news source.
That reputation just crashed and burned.
BBC Director-General Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness both resigned after getting caught red-handed doctoring President Trump's January 6 speech in a Panorama documentary that aired one week before the 2024 election.
The fake news network spliced together two separate parts of Trump's speech – taken nearly 50 minutes apart – to make it look like he told supporters to storm the Capitol.
They edited it to make Trump appear to say "We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you" immediately followed by "We fight like hell."
But that's not what happened.
Trump's actual call to march came early in the speech, and his "fight like hell" line didn't come until 50 minutes later – with his explicit call for "peaceful and patriotic" protest right in between.
The BBC deliberately cut out the part where Trump urged peace.¹
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the BBC "100 percent fake news" and a "propaganda machine."²
President Trump announced he's suing the BBC for up to $5 billion in damages, and BBC Chairman Samir Shah issued a groveling apology admitting the edit gave "the impression of a direct call for violent action."³
The broadcaster tried to claim it was an innocent mistake.
Nobody's buying that excuse.
John Kennedy exposes BBC's disgusting record of bias
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy took to the Senate floor and delivered one of the most devastating speeches of the year against the BBC's pattern of anti-Trump propaganda.
Kennedy started by explaining how the BBC operates as a taxpayer-funded propaganda machine that every British citizen is forced to bankroll.
"In the United Kingdom, every citizen, whether they watch the BBC or not, every citizen has to pay $230 a year," Kennedy explained. "It doesn't matter whether you watch the TV BBC or not. You still got to pay $230 a year to the BBC. They collect billions of dollars a year."⁴
The BBC rakes in nearly $4 billion annually from mandatory fees and operates entertainment channels, children's programming, a 24-hour news service, dozens of radio stations, streaming platforms, and live parliamentary coverage.
"They reach a lot of people, millions and millions of people, not just in the United Kingdom but across the world," Kennedy said.⁵
Kennedy noted that five years ago, the British Parliament commissioned an independent consultant to investigate the BBC's political bias.
The consultant spent months documenting how the BBC systematically misled its audience.
BBC executives ignored every single reform recommendation.
The findings only became public after they leaked to The Telegraph newspaper.
"No reasonable person could watch President Trump's full speech and conclude he called for violence," Kennedy stated, calling the doctored edit "pure propaganda."⁶
But the Trump speech wasn't the only example of BBC's anti-Trump bias that Kennedy highlighted.
A BBC reporter falsely claimed Trump told crowds to "shoot Liz Cheney in the face."
Another claimed Trump suggested Cheney should face a firing squad.
Trump never said either of those things – but the BBC reported them as fact anyway.
Kennedy also detailed how the BBC's coverage of the Israel-Hamas war favored Hamas terrorists, including broadcasting a Gaza documentary narrated by a 13-year-old whose father was a senior Hamas official – information the BBC deliberately concealed from viewers.
Britain's media regulator Ofcom later sanctioned the BBC for that "materially misleading" documentary.⁷
The pattern is clear: the BBC doesn't make innocent mistakes – they make calculated decisions to deceive their audience.
Kennedy urges Trump to take BBC to court
Kennedy ended his Senate floor speech with a clear message to President Trump.
"This is disgraceful," Kennedy declared. "President Trump is right to sue the BBC – and I hope he does."⁸
Kennedy added that the BBC's conduct "makes me want to stick my head in an oven."⁹
But Kennedy's speech exposed something bigger than one doctored video.
Michael Prescott, an independent consultant who reviewed BBC election coverage, sent a leaked memo to the BBC Board detailing nine separate examples of anti-Trump bias.¹⁰
The BBC hammered abortion and women's rights while barely mentioning the economy, immigration, and jobs – you know, the issues that actually decided the election.
Reporters kept using Harris campaign language like "reproductive rights" as if it was neutral terminology instead of Democrat talking points.
The network provided less fact-checking of questionable statements from Harris compared to Trump's comments.¹⁰
Legal experts say Trump faces an uphill battle taking the case to British courts where the statute of limitations has expired.
But Trump has already forced settlements from ABC and CBS over their biased coverage.
He could leverage the BBC's documented pattern of deception into a major payout – possibly to a charity of his choice.
The BBC issued an apology but refused to pay compensation, setting up a legal showdown.
Remember when Democrats spent years screaming about foreign interference in American elections?
Now a foreign state-funded broadcaster just got caught trying to manipulate American voters one week before a Presidential election by doctoring Trump's speech.
And the same media outlets that amplified Russia collusion conspiracies for four years are suddenly silent about actual foreign election interference.
Kennedy called out exactly what the BBC did – deliberate propaganda designed to influence the outcome of an American election.
The only question now is whether Trump will make them pay for it.
¹ CNN, "Trump threatens to sue BBC as broadcaster faces 'fight for its survival,'" November 10, 2025.
² Al Jazeera, "Inside the year-long BBC saga that led to Trump's $1bn lawsuit threat," November 11, 2025.
³ NBC News, "Trump says he will sue the BBC for up to $5 billion over speech edits," November 15, 2025.
⁴ Senator John Kennedy Press Release, "Kennedy on President Trump's plan to sue BBC over maliciously altered video: 'I hope he does,'" November 20, 2025.
⁵ Ibid.
⁶ Ibid.
⁷ ABC News, "A timeline of the Trump speech controversy roiling the BBC and other recent scandals," November 10, 2025.
⁸ Senator John Kennedy Press Release, "Kennedy on President Trump's plan to sue BBC over maliciously altered video: 'I hope he does,'" November 20, 2025.
⁹ Ibid.
¹⁰ The Telegraph, "Nine ways the BBC misled viewers over Trump," November 9, 2025.
