Two top officials at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stepped down Sunday following criticism of the way the British public broadcaster edited a speech delivered by President Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, in a documentary last year.

BBC Director-General Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness both left the organization, according to the BBC, the United Kingdom’s publicly funded national broadcaster.

Davie said in a letter to staff that leaving the organization “is entirely my decision” and that he was “working through exact timings with the Board to allow for an orderly transition to a successor over the coming months.”

“Overall the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as director-general I have to take ultimate responsibility,” Davie said in the lett

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