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WATCH: David Elstein blasts BBC for 'misleading' Britons with Donald Trump doctoring
Nov 3, 2025
An ex-BBC executive producer has highlighted the "very worrying" detail of the broadcaster's latest scandal, after being found to have doctored footage of US President Donald Trump.Speaking to GB News, David Elstein hit out at the "deep cultural issue" at the BBC and said the decision "needs more scrutiny".FULL STORY HERE.
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BBC executive producer David Elstein
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David, welcome to the show. A truly dark day for BBC impartianity, you have to admit
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to blatantly splice together pieces of footage that are basically unrelated with the sole intent, it seems
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of besmirching Donald Trump's reputation a week before the election. It doesn't look in the least good, and it's obviously deliberate
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It's been done for a purpose, and this kind of misleading editing is completely contrary to what the BBC is meant to be doing
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I'm slightly surprised that Michael Prescott or somebody else in this loop hasn't taken it to Ofcom, which is the media regulator
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Some years ago, I took a BBC documentary to Ofcom, which had misleadingly edited one of its interviewees
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BBC deeply resisted the complaint. Ofcom forced them to broadcast a two-minute apology
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And they were banged right then, and they're banged right here. So it's a mystery that the whole board appeared to have had this 19-page dossier for two months
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and it's only just become public. There is something deeply wrong here
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And David Elsie and I put it to you, the book has to stop surely at the top
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How much more of this nonsense can we have? Gaza, how to survive a war zone, employ a Hamas terrorist
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Bob Villan at Glastonbury. Death, death, death to the IDF and seemingly a slap on the wrist for some underling
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The book surely now has to stop with the BBC director general
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Tim Davey. Might his position be under fire? Well Tim although he nominally the editor of the BBC he is not actually from an editorial background he from a commercial background
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The last time a BBC director-general resigned over an editorialist, it was George Edwistle of the Lord McAlpine scandal
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And he, of course, had come through the editorial line to become director-general
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I think it's much more serious than Tim David. You know, the chairman, who is a very, very experienced current affairs producer, decades in the industry, for him to either ignore or suppress all of this, very worrying for the whole of the board to be involved, to know about it and to apparently be doing nothing
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You know, the BBC has been through, I think, scandals as bad as this, the Martin Bashir scandal, the Cliff Richard scandal, the McAlpine scandal, absolutely
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But I don't think this is just the director general. I think it's a much deeper cultural issue
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And I think the rest of the dossier, listing all the different ways in which the Trump-Kamala Harris election was misreported by the BBC, they are even more worrying than clipping together unrelated bits of Donald Trump's speech
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This needs a great deal more scrutiny. The Common Select Committee should be scrutinising it
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Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of State, should be scrutinising it. And the BBC board, particularly the chairman
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needs to be called to account. Well, thank you for your forthrightness and your honesty
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I really appreciate your time. That's the former BBC executive producer, David Elstein
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Thank you for joining us tonight on GB News
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