U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened the BBC with legal action over documentary program “Panorama’s” editing of the speech he made ahead of the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.

According to BBC News , the BBC confirmed it has received the letter and will “respond in due course.”

Controversy erupted over the weekend after a leaked memo from former BBC adviser Michael Prescott was published by The Telegraph suggesting that “Panorama” edited a Trump speech to make it sound like he encouraged the Jan. 6 riots. It resulted in the shocking resignations of both BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of news Deborah Turness on Sunday night.

On Monday, BBC Chair Samir Shah apologized for the edit in a letter to the U.K. culture, media and sport committee and called it an “error of

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