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September 26, 2019updated 30 Sep 2022 8:23am

BBC defends ruling against Naga Munchetty’s Trump remarks amid ‘unease’

By Freddy Mayhew

The BBC has shared more detail about a complaint that was partially upheld against BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty after some journalists expressed “bewilderment” and “unease” at the ruling.

The presenter is said to have fallen foul of the BBC’s strict impartiality guidelines over her remark about tweets by US President Donald Trump which aired on the morning show in July.

Trump said a number of ethnic minority congresswomen should “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”, which were widely condemned as racist and reported by the BBC.

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