Reith lecturer accuses BBC of cowardice for censoring his remarks on Trump

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The BBC has been accused of cowardice by a writer it selected to give its flagship annual lecture, after it removed his remarks about alleged corruption by Donald Trump.

With the corporation already threatened with a multibillion-dollar lawsuit by the US president, Rutger Bregman, a Dutch author and historian, said the BBC had removed a “key line” from his address when it was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Reith lecturer accuses BBC of cowardice for censoring his remarks on Trump

Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed

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"Bregman’s claim that Trump was “the most openly corrupt president in American history” was removed from the first of his Reith Lectures, the BBC’s prestigious annual address. The corporation has already received complaints about the decision.