{"id":2508869,"date":"2025-11-10T16:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bbc-execs-resign-for-trump-hoax-when-will-us-media-resign\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:11:12","slug":"bbc-execs-resign-for-trump-hoax-when-will-us-media-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bbc-execs-resign-for-trump-hoax-when-will-us-media-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Execs Resign For Trump Hoax. When Will US Media Resign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbbc-execs-resign-for-trump-hoax-when-will-us-media-resign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2508869&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The BBC&#8217;s director-general resigned after the network aired doctored footage of President Donald Trump&#8217;s January 6 speech, misleadingly suggesting he urged supporters to storm the Capitol, while omitting his call for peaceful protest. This incident highlights the BBC&#8217;s rare acceptance of responsibility,unlike much U.S. media, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swalwell-decries-biden-impeachment-inquiry-as-continuation-of-jan-6-capitol-riot\/\" title=\"Swalwell criticizes Biden impeachment inquiry as &#039;extension&#039; of Jan. 6 Capitol riot.\">repeatedly spread false narratives<\/a> about Trump without consequence.<\/p>\n<p>the summary details several <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >major media-driven trump-related hoaxes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1. **Russia Collusion Hoax**: Despite warnings about the flawed Steele dossier-funded by the Clinton campaign and central to claims of Trump-Russia collusion-the dossier was included in a 2017 intelligence assessment and widely promoted for years by major outlets like The Washington Post and The New York Times, earning Pulitzer Prizes along the way.<\/p>\n<p>2. **51 Intelligence Officials Letter**: Just before the 2020 election, former intelligence officials falsely claimed Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop was a Russian disinformation operation. Subsequent evidence, including testimony from a former CIA deputy director, revealed political motives behind this claim. The journalist who publicized the story later joined CNN and received a promotion.<\/p>\n<p>3. **Russia Bounties Story**: Reporting that Russia offered bounties to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan was later debunked, revealing that neither Trump nor his vice president was briefed on the intelligence and that the story was baseless.<\/p>\n<p>4. **&#8217;Very Fine People&#8217; Hoax**: Media falsely reported Trump called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/things-that-donald-trump-did-not-do\/\" title=\"Things That Donald ... Did Not Do\">white nationalists<\/a> &#8220;very fine people&#8221; after the 2017 Charlottesville events. In reality, Trump clarified he condemned neo-Nazis and white nationalists explicitly.<\/p>\n<p>The piece criticizes U.S. legacy media for escaping accountability and even rewarding journalists who promote misleading or false stories about Trump,contrasting this with the BBC&#8217;s resignation as a step toward media responsibility.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On Sunday the director-general of the BBC resigned after the British network published doctored footage of President Donald Trump speaking to supporters on Jan. 6. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement published by the BBC, Tim Davie said he was taking &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0mx28vlp4wo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ultimate responsibility<\/a>&rdquo; for the &ldquo;mistakes&rdquo; made in a documentary that spliced together separate clips of Trump speaking to the crowd on Jan. 6 to imply that Trump told his supporters to storm the Capitol. The network <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/nov\/08\/bbc-100-fake-news-says-donald-trumps-press-secretary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cut out<\/a> the part of the speech where Trump said his supporters should &ldquo;peacefully and patriotically make&rdquo; their &ldquo;voices heard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The BBC is at least pretending to take responsibility for its deception. But here in America, spreading hoaxes about Trump isn&rsquo;t career-ending. If anything, it&rsquo;s a career booster. But if the BBC can take steps toward accountability, U.S. media should too for a host of hoaxes they peddled.<\/p>\n<h2>Russia Collusion Hoax<\/h2>\n<p>Declassified documents&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/brennan-overruled-cia-experts-objections-to-include-steele-dossier-in-bogus-intel-assessment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">show<\/a>&nbsp;that after the 2016 election then-President <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/28\/russiagate-shows-how-media-use-fake-fact-checks-to-launder-info-ops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a> and his high-ranking members of the intelligence community <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/24\/after-spreading-russia-hoax-lies-media-lie-again-to-bury-evidence-they-lied\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">included the now-debunked<\/a> Steele dossier in their 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that attempted to link Trump and his <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/report-russia-hoax-was-built-on-one-scant-unclear-and-unverifiable-fragment-of-a-sentence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campaign to Russia<\/a>. The dossier was opposition research funded by the Clinton campaign. Despite warnings from intelligence experts that the dossier was flawed, the dossier was nonetheless included in the ICA and served as the basis for furthering the Russia collusion hoax, as The Federalist reported.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the absence of evidence throughout the entire hoax, the Pravda press spent years peddling left-wing lies about Trump&rsquo;s alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/24\/politico-wants-you-to-believe-the-massive-russiagate-scandal-is-just-a-story-about-trumps-impulses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">collusion<\/a> with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Three Washington Post reporters who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign\/2016\/12\/09\/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> a story in late 2016 regurgitating the CIA conclusion that &ldquo;Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency&rdquo; even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/ellen-nakashima\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">won<\/a> Pulitzer Prizes for their coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Former Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler &mdash; who voluntarily left the Post this past year &mdash; also eagerly propagated the hoax. After Trump questioned who paid for the dossier, Kessler dismissed Trump&rsquo;s concern, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GlennKesslerWP\/status\/920995401632833536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posting<\/a>: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s worth rereading the dossier these days. Some material unverified or salacious. But you can see why the FBI saw it as a Rosetta Stone.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2017\/dec\/12\/2017-lie-year-russian-election-interference-made-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PolitiFact<\/a> named Trump&rsquo;s statement that this &ldquo;Russian election interference is a &lsquo;made-up story&rsquo;&rdquo; as its 2017 &ldquo;Lie of the Year.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times published several stories furthering the hoax throughout 2016-2017 with titles such as: &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/11\/us\/politics\/cia-judgment-intelligence-russia-hacking-evidence.html?searchResultPosition=245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;C.I.A. Judgement on Russia Built On Swell of Evidence,&rdquo;<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/18\/us\/politics\/fact-check-donald-trump-james-comey-russia-border-wall-tax-cut.html?searchResultPosition=88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Fact Check: Trump Is Contradictory On Comey And Misleading On Russia,&rdquo;<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/01\/us\/politics\/russia-election-hacking.html?searchResultPosition=39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Russian Election Hacking Efforts, Wider Than Previously Known, Draw Little Scutiny.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>51 Intelligence Officials<\/h2>\n<p>Weeks before the 2020 presidential election, Politico&rsquo;s Natasha Bertrand <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/25\/assume-everything-russia-hoaxer-and-biden-laptop-truther-natasha-bertrand-says-is-a-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> the infamous &ldquo;51 intelligence officials&rdquo; story, which included a letter from dozens of former intel officials who baselessly claimed that the information found on Hunter Biden&rsquo;s laptop bore &ldquo;all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Then-candidate Joe Biden used the story and letter during the Oct. 22, 2020, presidential debate to fend off criticism of the Biden family foreign business.<\/p>\n<p>Most every media outlet and Hunter Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/01\/hunter-biden-admits-infamous-laptop-is-his-in-plea-for-probe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">himself<\/a> later verified the laptop and its contents. In fact, House Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/21\/ex-cia-official-blinken-prompted-infamous-intel-statement-calling-hunter-biden-laptop-russian-disinfo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released<\/a> testimony in April of 2023 from Michael Morell, a former deputy director of the CIA who signed the letter. In that testimony, Morell stated that Antony Blinken, a then-Biden campaign official, &ldquo;reached out to him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story&rdquo; that the New York Post had published. Morell testified that &ldquo;Blinken&rsquo;s outreach &lsquo;set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement&rsquo; that baselessly asserted the laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign,&rdquo; as The Federalist&rsquo;s Shawn Fleetwood reported.<\/p>\n<p>Morell&nbsp;also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/21\/ex-cia-official-blinken-prompted-infamous-intel-statement-calling-hunter-biden-laptop-russian-disinfo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">affirmed<\/a>&nbsp;in his congressional testimony the existence of two motives for distributing the statement, &ldquo;one being for former intel officials to share their alleged &lsquo;concern[s] with the American people that the Russians were playing on this issue.&rsquo; The other was to &lsquo;help Vice President Biden.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Instead of facing any accountability, Bertrand landed a job at CNN, where she has since been <a href=\"https:\/\/cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/13\/natasha-bertrand-promoted-to-cnn-correspondent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promoted<\/a> to Pentagon correspondent.<\/p>\n<h2>Russia Offered Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops<\/h2>\n<p>Three New York Times&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/06\/30\/media-are-playing-games-yet-again-with-anonymous-russia-leaks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reporters<\/a> &mdash; Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt, and Michael Schwirtz, none of whom were fired &mdash; wrote that &ldquo;American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan &mdash; including targeting American troops &mdash; amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter.&rdquo; According to the reporters, such intelligence was allegedly &ldquo;briefed to President Trump&rdquo; but ultimately the White House didn&rsquo;t authorize any steps to be taken.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was it later confirmed that Trump and his vice president hadn&rsquo;t actually been briefed on the information, but a senior Biden administration official also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/06\/cheney-never-apologized-for-spreading-false-russian-bounty-story-which-was-used-against-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> that the reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2021\/04\/15\/surprise-the-russian-bounty-story-hyped-up-by-corrupt-media-to-hurt-trump-turned-out-to-be-fake-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was false<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Very Fine People&rsquo; Hoax<\/h2>\n<p>Trump provided remarks following a 2017 Charlottesville <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/08\/14\/charlottesville-shows-blue-lives-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rally<\/a> where protesters and counter-protesters clashed &ldquo;over the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue from a park. The protests ended violently when a self-proclaimed &lsquo;white nationalist&rsquo; drove his car into the crowd, killing one and injuring 19,&rdquo; as The Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/27\/biden-peddles-very-fine-people-hoax-after-even-fact-checkers-admitted-it-was-a-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Left-wing media claimed that Trump called white nationalists &ldquo;very fine people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic&rsquo;s Rosie Gray <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/08\/trump-defends-white-nationalist-protesters-some-very-fine-people-on-both-sides\/537012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>, &ldquo;Trump Defends White-Nationalist Protesters: &lsquo;Some Very Fine People On Both Sides,&#8217;&rdquo; while the Daily News&rsquo; Christopher Brennan and Denis Slattery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2017\/08\/16\/president-trump-calls-white-supremacists-very-fine-people-blames-charlottesville-on-both-sides-in-bizarre-trump-tower-tirade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> an article titled: &ldquo;President Trump calls white supremacists &lsquo;very fine people,&rsquo; blames Charlottesville on &lsquo;both sides&rsquo; in bizarre Trump Tower tirade.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But what Trump <em>actually<\/em> said was: &ldquo;But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. I&rsquo;m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tracking-kamalas-biggest-and-baddest-lies-20-and-counting\/\" title=\"Tracking Kamala\u2019s Biggest And Baddest Lies: 20 And Counting\">propaganda press&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s hit job on Trump was successful, however, because years later Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/27\/biden-peddles-very-fine-people-hoax-after-even-fact-checkers-admitted-it-was-a-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accused<\/a> Trump of calling neo-Nazis &ldquo;very fine people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While media across the pond take some responsibility for painting Trump as the villain of Jan. 6, the legacy media in the United States &mdash; instead of facing reprimands or firings for their relentless propagation of Trump hoaxes &mdash; enjoy promotions and Pulitzers.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC chief resigns over doctored Trump Jan. 6 footage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2508870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-10-at-1.55.25-PM-scaled-e1762801031645.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[14958,66820,36829,66821,66822],"class_list":["post-2508869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-bbc","tag-executives-resign","tag-media-accountability","tag-trump-hoax","tag-us-media"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-10-at-1.55.25-PM-scaled-e1762801031645.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508873,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508869\/revisions\/2508873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2508870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}