Opinion: How a British News Brand Called Trump’s Billion Dollar Bluff

Photo Illustration by Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/Getty The BBC, Great Britain’s state broadcaster, has become that rare thing: a mainstream media organization that has taken a stand against Trump’s rampant bullying. In October 2024, the BBC aired an hour-long documentary on Trump, in which two clips from his January 6, 2021 speech—given to supporters who had amassed that day in Washington, D.C.—were stitched into what looked like a single seamless call to march on the Capitol and “fight like…