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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Savage Media editor

Ofcom urged to investigate GB News Trump interview over inaccuracy claims

Bev Turner with Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House
Bev Turner, who interviewed Donald Trump in November, told the president the US felt much safer than the UK. Photograph: Joyce N Boghosian/White House

Britain’s media regulator Ofcom is under pressure to investigate a GB News interview with Donald Trump after complaints that it contained misleading and inaccurate claims that the network failed to challenge.

The rightwing channel claimed a “world exclusive sit-down interview” with the US president in November, in which Trump asserted that human-induced climate change was “a hoax” and that London had no-go areas for police and that the capital had “sharia law”.

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