Overview
- Prescott’s dossier claims Panorama combined lines from Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech nearly an hour apart, omitting his call to act “peacefully and patriotically.”
- The memo says the program then cut to marchers, including Proud Boys, in a way that suggested a response to Trump even though the footage was filmed before he spoke.
- The contested clip aired in an October 2024 Panorama special titled Trump: A Second Chance? released about a week before the U.S. election.
- The Telegraph’s associate editor, who reported the memo, said the White House is looking into the footage, though no external finding or corrective action has been announced.
- The BBC said it does not comment on leaked documents and that it takes feedback seriously, as UK politicians and critics call for an investigation into the episode.