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WATCH: Camilla Tominey reveals claims made by BBC whistleblower after second Trump edit
Nov 13, 2025
Camilla Tominey has detailed The Telegraph's latest BBC exposé as it was revealed that the broadcaster doctored Donald Trump's January 6 speech a second time.The GB News presenter and the Telegraph's Associate Editor lifted the lid on their investigation into an episode of Newsnight in 2022, which also suggested that Mr Trump was encouraging his supporters to riot.FULL STORY HERE.
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It's an explosive exclusive
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I'm delighted to be joined in the studio in Westminster by GB News presenter and the associate editor of The Telegraph
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Camilla Tominy. Camilla, our jaws are on our desks. The BBC banged to rights two years ago
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doing the same monkey business. I know, so this Newsnight episode of June 9, 2022
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was flagged to us by somebody called David Chaudois, who used to work as a graphic designer on the show
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and he said that he felt there was something eerily familiar about the way that Panorama had spliced the clip of the speech
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for that documentary that they put out in October last year. We then sort of interrogated that line of thinking
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and thought to ourselves, well, what do you remember? And he said, I remember it vividly. I worked on that episode, it was presented by Kirsty Walk
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and it featured a Republican calling out the splicing live on air
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To be fair, it even had an air of familiarity with me because I watch Newsnight a lot, watch all news programmes
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watch GB news programmes, watch everything I can in order to be well informed. There's something familiar about it
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Never got picked up at the time. Obviously, the Newsnight episode plays out very, very clearly
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You can see how the clip has been edited. It's not exactly the same edit as Panorama
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It should be pointed out, but you still get this splicing between we will march and we will fight like hell
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which is presented seamlessly as if it hasn't been edited, and then the imagery cuts to scenes of people fighting
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The fact that Mick Mulvaney calls it out live on air, even though he is not at that point a Trump supporter this should also be pointed out He was White House Chief of Staff He left after January 6th because he was disgusted with what happened in the Capitol that day And then he went on to be quite a vocal Trump critic
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He says to Kirsty Walk, who, can I just caveat, is a journalist I've always respected and admired
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He says to her, hang on, that clip's not quite right. That's how it plays out on the show
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The show is coming to an end, admittedly. There's another reporter on there from BuzzFeed commenting on the events in Washington that day
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The show comes to an end without further incident. David Chaudois, our whistleblower
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says that he vividly remembers being in an editorial meeting the next morning where somebody, one of the producers
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and we're all in telly, so we know how this works, you have a post-mortem of the show the night before
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and you say to each other, what happened with that clip? That was a bit embarrassing. Mick Mornvaney called it out live on air
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Concerns were raised. According to Mr Chaudois, quickly dismissed. Now, we have, at the Telegraph
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put all of this to the BBC and we are awaiting response
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So we put in our inquiry at noon. We gave them a deadline of four. They're still ruminating
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Well, they can ruminate for a bit longer. In the meantime, by the way, the Telegraph has been astonishing on this story
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Hats off to the Telegraph. Let's take a look at that Telegraph clip
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so you can decide for yourselves about the misrepresentation. Here it is
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Get a cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we fight
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We fight like hell. We're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women
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And we probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them So that the clip The Telegraph have put out some 33 minutes ago I think it worthwhile at this juncture showing the Panorama clip as well so we can compare them like for like
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Here's a clip from Panorama. We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you and we fight
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We fight like hell. We're going to walk down to the Capitol
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and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women
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So, Camilla Tommy, what you almost see there is version one, if you like, was not quite as out there
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but the BBC kind of got a taste for it. Version two, they trimmed it back further to make the same point
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but with more gravity. I mean, to be fair, let's be generous to Newsnight. They did include that line about congressmen and women
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that was absent from the panorama edit. Obviously, this edit has taken place in the June of 2022
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The Panorama documentary goes out on the 28th of October, 2024. But I think the key critical aspect of this story
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and what makes it, in a way, slightly worse than Panorama are two different distinctions
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First of all, it's called out live on air by somebody who is a Trump critic, not a Trump supporter, point one
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So it's already been flagged to senior editorial staff at the corporation that something's not quite right there
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Nevertheless, footage is edited in a similar way for Panorama. Point two, obviously The Telegraph and those who support our expose of concerns about a
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lack of impartiality at the national broadcaster have been accused of orchestrating a right plot against the BBC Robbie Gibb the former director of communications from Number 10 there calls for his head to roll because goodness me
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there's a righty on the BBC board, we can't allow that, and all the rest of it
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This lends itself to something different because you could, if you wanted, mount an argument to say that Michael Prescott
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may have links to Robbie Gibb, he then apparently, whoever leaked the dossier and it ended up with a telegraph
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which is a right-leaning newspaper, that kind of lends itself some credence
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I don't believe it at all, by the way. I think it's absolutely preposterous to blame good journalists
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for pointing out bad journalism. Chopper and I have worked with Gordon Rayner for years
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He's an exceptional journalist who is forensic in his approach to exposés like this, point one
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But also, well, this can't be a right-wing plot, can it? No. If the BBC have treated the same speech in the same way
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on two different occasions to splice it, to make it look as if
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march on the Capitol and fight like hell happened seamlessly. No, it didn't. He didn't say that
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He said it 54 minutes apart, those two statements. Do you think this might explain why the BBC seemed so relaxed
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when it was first raised by Michael Prescott in January and May this year? Because if it aired already in 2022 and it's in the system
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as things are in the BBC, they thought, well, let's do it again because it makes no sense
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No, but this speaks to the entire nub of the problem, that when they looked at this originally, they shoved their shoulders
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because they said, well, it should be spliced by that because we all know that Trump was complicit in the January 6th riots
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It's evidence of a group think that they think it's a fait accompli
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that the US president incited what happened on Capitol Hill that day in 2021
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