EXCLUSIVE: BBC staff link Trump’s election to the Nazis in staggering internal leaked messages
Leaked messages show BBC staff linked Donald Trump’s election to the Nazis, GB News can reveal.
Discussing a Guardian article that claimed Elon Musk’s stock prices increased upon Donald Trump’s election, a BBC employee wrote: “a lot of wealthy German industrialists increased their wealth under the Nazis”.
In a series of internal communications, seen by GB News, BBC staff bemoaned the Republicans’s reelection, including one worker say they were “disappointed”, another describing Mr Trump as the “Annoying Orange”, and others using crying emojis to show their dismay.
A leaked conversation on the BBC’s Slack messaging service discussed a boost to the US stock market following Mr Trump’s shock victory on Tuesday.
One employee wrote sarcastically: “Don’t worry. It’ll all trickle down!”.
Another staffer said they “removed my twitter bookmark yesterday” in reference to Elon Musk, a strong Trump supporter, adding “that’ll teach him”.
An employee concurred, saying they “really want[ed] to minimise my use of twitter but the constant supply of Gary Barlow’s Massive Son memes is hard to resist”.
Responding to the BBC employee who compared Mr Trump’s victory to German industrialists profiting from the Nazis’ election victory, one worker said “…which is the reason aspirin is spelt with a small A” in reference to the pharmaceutical company.
A BBC source said: “This is yet more evidence of BBC staff’s deranged view of Trump as a Nazi.”
“The BBC is part of the media machine that amplified the claim that Trump admired Hitler’s generals and is a fascist.”
“This kind of nonsense erodes trust in the media and shows how disconnected and out of touch many BBC staff are when it comes to Trump voters.”
Richard Tice, the Reform Party Deputy Leader, told GB News: “Trump Derangement Syndrome has infected the BBC like a super spreader virus.”
“It did not happen naturally but has been manufactured in the heart of the BBC induction programme.”
The news comes after the US stock market surged upon Mr Trump’s resounding election victory.
GB News obtained a series of leaked messages from BBC staffers discussing the US election, all of which were critical of Mr Trump.
Robert Bates, a political commentator, said: “These comments are hardly surprising.”
“We all saw the BBC’s coverage on election night and it was frankly a national embarrassment.”
“These people are so out-of-touch with how whole swathes of the west are feeling, that they’re frankly ill-suited to life in 2024 and don’t know what is coming down the track.”
He continued: “These comments not only show a pretty cretinous sense of humour, which helps explain why shows like Citizen Khan are regularly commissioned, but also a sense of self-importance indicative of fragile egos that have been incubated by a liberal lifestyle and left these people maladjusted.”
“Once we have finished relishing in their current distress, they deserve our pity in the long-run because they are simply foot soldiers of an ideology that is set to lose again, and again, over the next few years.”
The BBC has been accused of anti-Trump bias ever since he launched his political career in 2015.
In 2020 the broadcaster found that an article published on its website showed partisanship against the then US President.
The BBC found that the article breached its code for impartiality and expressed the journalist’s views rather than a professional opinion.
Harrison Pitt, a Senior Editor at The European Conservative and a Fellow at the New Culture Forum, said: “In Donald Trump, a solid Anglophile has won the White House. Thanks in no small part to his Scottish mother, the new President-elect has long professed a great love of our country.”
“Whatever our politics, Trump’s victory presents a golden opportunity for us to co-operate with the incoming administration and advance Britain’s national interests in the world–the kind of thing that the British Broadcasting Corporation should, at the very least, be covering impartially and perhaps even welcoming.”
“That many of their staff are instead making half-educated comparisons between Trump’s billionaire backer, Elon Musk, and Nazi-supporting industrialists goes to show how far the BBC has strayed from its remit.”
“The people who work there do not regard themselves as dutiful guardians of our national interests, but as superior members of a cosmopolitan priesthood.”
The BBC was approached for comment.
