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The head of the BBC and the organization’s news CEO both have stepped down after a controversy involving the editing of a speech by President Donald Trump. The speech in question? The one Trump gave on Jan. 6, 2021 — the day Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol.

BBC director-general Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness announced they would leave the publicly funded national broadcaster because of the way Trump’s speech was edited for an episode of the documentary series “Panorama.” The episode was called “Trump: A Second Chance?” and it aired just before last year’s election.

The Associated Press’ Jill Lawless wrote, “Critics said that the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary last year was misleading and cut out a section where Trump said that he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.”

Davie, who had been in his position for five years, told staff in a note that the decision to leave was “entirely my decision.” He added, “Overall the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as director-general I have to take ultimate responsibility.”

Meanwhile, Turness told staff in a note that the controversy from the Trump documentary “has reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC — an institution that I love. As the CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, the buck stops with me.”

She added, “In public life leaders need to be fully accountable, and that is why I am stepping down. While mistakes have been made, I want to be absolutely clear (that) recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong.”

The Trump administration wasted no time gloating about the resignations. On Truth Social, Trump wrote, “The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught ‘doctoring’ my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th.”

Trump thanked The  Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom for its story last week: “BBC doctored Trump speech, internal report reveals.”

The New York Times’ Stephen Castle wrote, “Mr. Davie’s surprise resignation came several days after The Daily Telegraph published details of a leaked internal memo arguing that a BBC Panorama documentary had juxtaposed comments by the president in a way that made it appear that he had explicitly encouraged the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.”