Author and historian Rutger Bregman has said “the irony could not be bigger” as he accused the BBC of censoring a sentence about Donald Trump in a lecture he gave.

Dutch academic Bregman said the corporation removed a line from the broadcast of his Reith Lecture, titled A Time Of Monsters , in which he described Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history”.

It comes in the wake of controversy at the corporation after the US president threatened the BBC with a billion-dollar lawsuit over an edit that spliced parts of his 6 January 2021 speech together in a Panorama episode from 2024. New Feature

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The BBC said it removed the sentence from the lecture “on legal advice”.

However Bregman said the sentence “wasn’t

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