“This purposefully dishonest, selectively edited clip by the BBC is further evidence that they are total, 100 percent fake news,” Leavitt told the newspaper.
U.K. taxpayers are being “forced to foot the bill for a Leftist propaganda machine,” Leavitt said.
In response, a spokesperson for the BBC told media outlets that the broadcaster’s editorial guidelines and standards committee explicitly considered differing views and opinions of its coverage. “While we don’t comment on leaked documents, when the BBC receives feedback it takes it seriously and considers it carefully,” the spokesperson said.