Brendan Carr’s FCC launches probe into BBC’s President Trump edit

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has reportedly written to the BBC, PBS, and NPR announcing an investigation into whether a controversial BBC documentary with a misleading edit of a Donald Trump speech was ever aired in the US. Breitbart obtained a copy of the letter, which hasn’t been shared publicly by either Chairman Carr or the FCC. It’s addressed to Katherine Maher, the CEO of NPR, Paula Kerger, the president and CEO of PBS, and Tim Davie, who was the director-general of the BBC until he announced his resignation. In it, Chairman Carr asks if the BBC provided “either the video or audio of the spliced speech” to either NPR or PBS, and requests transcripts and video of any possible broadcasts of the program in the US. The investigation was sparked by a 2024 BBC Panorama documentary, which played footage of President Trump’s speech on January 6th, 2021, but edited together two sections almost an hour apart to create what was presented as a single utterance suggesting Trump explicitly called for violence at the Capitol.