Joe Concha calls BBC’s apology over edited Trump video ‘half-baked’

Published November 14, 2025 1:17pm ET



Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha said the edits the BBC made to video of President Donald Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021, were defamation, and that the network needs to take responsibility.

“This was a pseudo half-baked apology,” Concha said. “Two top executives at the BBC have resigned as result of this blatant action, so this apology just ain’t going to do it if they truly aren’t taking responsibility for what this news organization — that by the way has existed basically since the end of World War I — did.”

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