“We are not the story, we are facilitators. It’s not what I’m interested in. I found it very distressing, to be completely honest,” Munchetty explained.
Following former Director-General Tony-Hall, 69, overturning the broadcasting giant’s decision to reprimand the presenter, she told Radio Times she does not regret making the comments about President Trump.
With a backlash at the time regarding the host’s comments, the BBC said: “President Trump’s comments that a number of female Democrat members of Congress should ‘go back’ to the ‘totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came’ were widely condemned as racist, and we reported on this extensively.
“The BBC’s editorial guidelines do require due impartiality, but the Editorial Complaints Unit’s ruling is clear that Naga Munchetty was perfectly entitled to give a personal response to the phrase ‘go back to your own country’.”