The BBC has issued US President Donald Trump an apology following accusations of a misleading video edit. The broadcasting company maintains, however, there is no basis for his bombshell defamation claim.

It added that it was an “error of judgement” and the programme will “not be broadcast again in this form on any BBC platforms”. The apology comes after the BBC were caught allegedly doctoring a second Donald Trump clip. The BBC’s apology was about a clip of a Donald Trump speech, that was edited and aired in a Panorama documentary last year.

A BBC spokesperson said: “Lawyers for the BBC have written to President Trump’s legal team in response to a letter received on Sunday.

“BBC chair Samir Shah has separately sent a personal letter to the White House making clear to President Trump that he and the corporation are sorry for the edit of the president’s speech on 6 January 2021, which featured in the programme.

“The BBC has no plans to rebroadcast the documentary Trump: A Second Chance? on any BBC platforms.

“While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim.”

Earlier in the week Mr Trump said he had an “obligation” to launch a billion-dollar lawsuit against the corporation, saying in an interview with Fox News that the BBC had “defrauded the public” over the editing of the speech, which made it appear as if he was explicitly urging people to attack the US Capitol on January 6 2021.

In a retraction published by the BBC, it said: “This programme was reviewed after criticism of how President Donald Trump’s 6th January 2021 speech was edited.

“During that sequence, we showed excerpts taken from different parts of the speech.

“However, we accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech, rather than excerpts from different points in the speech, and that this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action.

“The BBC would like to apologise to President Trump for that error of judgement.”

The episode, Trump: A Second Chance?, has been taken down from the BBC website and a retraction was published on the webpage on Thursday evening.

It comes as the BBC included very similar footage to an edited clip in Newsnight as they did to the Panorama programme.

The clip used two nearly two and a half years prior gives the impression that President Donald Trump said something that his defenders said he did not.

Broadcast on June 9, 2022 the clip from January 6, 2021, was even called out by someone close to the president, reports The Telegraph.

A spokesperson for the BBC told The Express: “The BBC holds itself to the highest editorial standards. This matter has been brought to our attention and we are now looking into it.”