Trump Claims BBC Used AI To Doctor His Capitol Riot Speech

Donald Trump has falsely accused the BBC of using AI to fake his comments in a Panorama programme about January 6.

The US president has a multi-billion dollar lawsuit out against the corporation after it spliced together different sections of a speech he gave on the day of the 2021 Capitol riot.

Trump is suing for defamation, claiming the edits suggest he had directly encouraged his supporters to storm the government building.

The lawsuit, filed in the US, already accuses the BBC of “intentionally, maliciously and deceptively doctoring” the president’s speech.

Trump has now insisted AI was used to alter his words altogether.

“The BBC has me – actually AI.” he told CBS’s 60 Minutes. “They have me saying a horrible statement. I said, ‘I never said that.’

“It turns out they gave me an AI. They had my lips speaking words of hate, tremendous hate, which I never said.

“They don’t know what to do. They’ve admitted they’re wrong, they just don’t know what to do.

“They actually had me making a major statement, and it wasn’t me. It was my face, it was my lips. My lips were perfectly in sync with the words.

“I said, ‘I can’t believe it, I can’t believe it.’”

The Panorama clip showed the president as saying: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol… and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.”

Trump did say those words during his speech – but in two separate segments.

He told the crowd: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”

More than 50 minutes later, he said: “And we fight. We fight like hell.”

The BBC has been approached for comment.

The corporation has previously apologised to the White House over the edit but rejected calls for compensation.

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