US President Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC over the way a speech he made was edited in a documentary aired by Britain’s national broadcaster.

BBC chairman Samir Shah on Monday apologised for the “error of judgement,” which triggered the resignations of the BBC’s top executive and its head of news.

Director-General Tim Davie and news chief Deborah Turness quit on Sunday over accusations of bias and misleading editing of a speech Trump delivered on January 6, 2021, before a crowd of his supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington.

The hour-long documentary — titled “Trump: A Second Chance?” — was broadcast as part of the BBC’s Panorama series days before the 2024 US presidential election.

It spliced together three quotes from two sections of the 2021 speech, d

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