The episode included edited portions of his speech ahead of the January 6th attempted coup d’etat, where followers of the President marched on the US Capitol and attempted to prevent the lawful transfer of power following his election defeat by Joe Biden
Donald Trump has vented about the BBC, repeatedly lying about Britain’s state news organisation using “AI” to make it appear he said things he did not say.
Trump is currently suing the BBC, claiming an episode of Panorama, which did not air in the United States, had done $10 billion worth of damage to him.
The episode included edited portions of his speech ahead of the January 6th attempted coup d’etat, where followers of the President marched on the US Capitol and attempted to prevent the lawful transfer of power following his election defeat by Joe Biden.
The episode used two quotes of things Trump did say, but were in different parts of the speech.
But today, Trump falsely claimed the quotes were “AI generated.”
“The BBC was incredible, what they did is they had me speaking something I never said. And I’ve never seen anything quite like it.
“The BBC took it a step further, they put words in my mouth and said I said some pretty bad things.
“I didn’t say them. It was AI generated.”
“And I said: “I never said that.” In fact my staff said “That was some pretty bad stuff you said.”
None of this is true. None of the speech elements the BBC broadcast were fabricated. All of them were complete sentences spoken by the President during his January 6th 2021 speech.
Countless courts, plus the US House of Representative agreed that Trump’s speech played a role in inciting violence on what became a bloody insurrection at the US capitol shortly after the speech.
Trump went on to boast of his popularity, despite regularly running his mouth off in public.
He said: “You know I’m pretty good at this stuff, if you can do years of these press conferences and you’re a popular president of the United States that won in a landslide, that won all seven swing states, that got record numbers of votes, I mean, I guess I’m ok at this stuff.
“I said “I never said that”, and then we found out it was AI generated. And they admit they made a mistake, but I watched them this morning for some reason and it was so inaccurate. Their reporting on the war was unbelievable. We have decimated that country, and if you watch BBC it’s almost like they’re fighting us to a draw. They’re not fighting us to a draw, it was very inaccurate news. It was fake news.”
Again, the quotes were from things he said, and were not AI generated.
Trump went on: “I’m very proud of the term fake news, because, it’s my term, I came up with it but it’s no longer accurate. It really is corrupt, fraudulent news. It’s not just fake, it’s beyond fake it’s really criminal what they do.”
Trump went on to claim the BBC had admitted “guilt” in the case.
He said: “They admit they’re guilty but we’ll see how it comes out.”
In fact, the BBC this week filed a motion to dismiss the case, on the grounds that notwithstanding any clumsy editing, the episode did not air anywhere in the world where it could damage his reputation.
“I like that question,” Trump said to the reporter who raised it during an Oval Office event with Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin.