From Grove Park to Interviewing Trump in the White House
Beverley Turner talks crime and the BBC with President but not Epstein
Beverley Turner in the White House with the President. Picture: GB News
November 16, 2025
A woman who raised her family in Chiswick was this weekend in the White House for a face-to-face interview with Donald Trump.
Beverley Turner met the US President the exclusive exchange for GB News which is now his favourite British TV network following his row with the BBC.
Ms Turner relocated to Washington over a year ago having spent around two decades living in Grove Park. The former wife of Olympic rower James Cracknell was a reporter on GB News and continued to represent the broadcaster while in the US.
The interview took place against a background the potential legal battle between the BBC and the President. The day before the interview the Corporation has apologised to the President about the way a Panaroma documentary, broadcast before the election he won, had edited his speech made just before the January 6th attack on the Capitol building. Although the programme put his more inflammatory remarks in broader context, in one section they were spliced together with no indication that this section of the speech had been edited.
Following the leaking of an internal report which criticised the programme as well as suggesting other biased reporting by the BBC, the Director General Tim Davie, as well as head of news, Deborah Turness tendered their resignation.
President Trump’s Florida-based lawyers issued a notice of action with a demand for damages of $1billion dollars.
Even prior to this dispute, Ms Turner had been a consistent critic of the BBC and other ‘mainstream media’ organisations. Her own views on issues such as vaccines have often challenged what she describes as centrist media narratives and cancel culture.
She set the tone for the interview early on by telling the President, “You’ve proven that leaders don’t just have to sit around writing a strongly worded letters you actually get things done. You’ve actually got stuff done in a short space of time.”
During the interview Trump continued his attack on the BBC saying that he was obliged to sue and that saying of its reporting "This is beyond fake. This is corrupt!". He habitually describes media that is critical of him as ‘fake news’.
He told Ms Turner, "I'm not looking to get into lawsuits, but I think I have an obligation to do it. This was so egregious. If you don't do it, you don't stop it from happening again with other people. I'd like to find out why they did it."
He raised concern fake content generally saying, “You worry about AI because things like this can happen, you know, with their different geniuses. I mean, you know, you can do things. I've seen things that are incredible.”
Some media commentators felt that Ms Turner verged into encouraging Trump to go after the BBC. She told him, “You are doing it not just for you because your feeling is that if they could represent me in that way they could misrepresent anybody.” Following the interview, the President spoke to other media and told them that the amount that he was going to sue the BBC for $5billion.
The interview with Trump lasted over 40 minutes
Other issues covered in the interview included immigration in Europe which Trump said that Britain ‘had to do something about’, his view that the UK should use more of its 'beautiful, clean oil'. Trump repeated claims he had made previously about the effectiveness of wind-based power generation and blasted what he called the climate change hoax. Ms Turner told him how much she loved the ‘truth bombs’ which he dropped during his recent speech to the UN and how good it was to hear him expose the ‘scam’ of net zero.
The President’s dislike of the Mayor of London resurfaced with him saying that Sir Sadiq was a terrible Mayor, a ‘disaster’ and a ‘nasty person’ who was letting crime go with people in London ‘being stabbed in the ass or worse. He alleged, without giving specifics, that there were parts of London where the police didn’t want to patrol any more.
He did however have relatively warm word for Prime Minister Keir Starmer who he credited with getting a good deal for the UK in trade negotiations.
One name that was not mentioned during the interview was Jeffrey Epstein. The release of more email exchanges has revealed more about the relationship between the convicted paedophile and Trump raising questions whether the latter knew the nature of Epstein’s activities or even participated in them. The President’s reluctance to publish files relating to the case has angered even some who previously been his most ardent supporters.
The interview also covered issues about military recruitment, life-expectancy in parts of Glasgow (which Trump appeared to suggest could be increased by quicker approvals for golf course planning applications) and the Royal Family. President Trump made numerous statements which were verifiably factually inaccurate, but Ms Turner did not challenge him on any of them including the claim that he invented the phrase ‘fake news’. Other journalists have argued that this approach is the only practical approach to interviewing him.
Following the broadcast of the interview Ms Turner posted on social media ‘Well that was fun’ adding “Lots of questions about how I'm feeling today after yesterday's interview... So far, I have spent my day doing laundry, clearing out the fridge and receiving messages from very old friends.”
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