White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.Donald Trump’s spokeswoman wasted no time in dancing on Tim Davie’s grave after he resigned as BBC director general amid a boas row.Karoline Leavitt has previously described the corporation as “100 per cent fake news” following claims its flagship news programme Panorama had doctored a speech by the US president.Davie told BBC staff he was resigning in a note to the broadcaster’s staff on Sunday afternoon.Deborah Turness, the chief executive of BBC News, announced that she was also resigning.Within minutes, Leavitt took to X to revel in Davie’s downfall.Above a screenshot of a Telegraph headline saying “Trump goes to war with ‘fake news’ BBC”, she wrote: “Shot.”She added “chaser” above a second screenshot from the BBC website announcing Davie’s resignation.Shot: Chaser: pic.twitter.com/n0U08PnUJb Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) November 9, 2025BBC chairman Samir Shah is expected to issue a formal apology for the Panorama programme, which was broadcast in October last year, just days before Trump’s re-election as president.The programme’s makers were accused of splicing together two sections of the speech Trump made to supporters shortly before the riots on January 6 2020 to give a misleading impression of what he actually said.In one section, Trump appears to say he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to “fight like hell”.However, Trump actually said he would walk with them “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”.He called on his supporters to “fight like hell” later in the speech amid false claims that the 2020 election had been stolen from him.A 19-page dossier on the incident, seen by the Daily Telegraph, was sent to the BBC board by Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the corporation’s editorial guidelines and standards committee.Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr, also branded the BBC “full of shit” over the controversy.Related...BBC Bosses Tim Davie And Deborah Turness Resign Over Anti-Donald Trump Bias RowNick Robinson Blasts Boris Johnson Amid BBC Anti-Trump Bias RowDonald Trump s Spokeswoman Brands BBC 100% Fake News Over Panorama Row
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