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20:08, Mon, Jul 1, 2024 Mr Aaronovitch, the top BBC presenter who presents Radio 4's Briefing Room show has sparked fury today after calling - tweeting - for Trump to be 'murdered' by Biden. He took to X/Twitter shortly after 5 pm and said: 'If I was Biden I'd hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America's security #SCOTUS'. The hashtag suggests his wild opinion was sparked by the ruling from the Supreme Court today, which ruled that former presidents have absolute immunity from prosecution for their official acts. Aaronovitch's tweet sparked fury. He 'appeared to breach the BBC's rules on social media impartiality today with a controversial tweet about the US election'. Responding to journalist Montgomery who accused him of “Trump derangement syndrome”, Aaronovitch doubled down and lashed out, replying: 'Did you see the Supreme Court ruling Jack? Or were you too busy with your head up Farage's derriere?' An hour after posting the tweet, he told one critic that the post was 'satirical and based on today’s 6-3 ruling on presidential immunity'. Aaronovitch finally deleted the post after around 90 minutes, tweeting: 'There is now a 'far right' pile-on suggesting that my tweet about the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity is an incitement to violence when it’s plainly a satire'. So I’m deleting it. If nothing else though it’s given me a map of some of the daftest people on this site. “Note by the way that not one of them has a problem with the ruling itself.” Spectator columnist Barratt responded to Aaronovitch’s post with the observation: "'Impartiality' may not be in the best of health at the BBC…” (Source: express *)
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