By now, all but the most deranged denizens of the Leftmedia fever swamps know what Donald Trump did and didn’t say during his January 6, 2021, address on the Ellipse just south of the White House.

And it’s precisely what he didn’t say that has the once-proud British Broadcasting Corporation in the soup, in a shambles, in a proper mess, about to eat a dog’s dinner. (These Britishisms sound best when you utter them in your best Bri-ish accent).

Yesterday, the president put the BBC on notice for its “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements,” and gave them a Friday deadline to make things right or be sued for a cool $1 billion.

According to the letter: “Failure to comply will leave President Trump with no choice but to pursue any and all legal rights and remedies available to recover damages for the overwhelming financial and reputational harm that the BBC has caused him to suffer, with all rights and remedies being expressly reserved by President Trump.”

How did we get here? Here’s how: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” That’s precisely what President Trump said on January 6, and it’s the defining takeaway from that speech. As such, it long ago put the lie to those on the Left who claim that he called for violence, that he incited an insurrection.

Apparently, though, the folks at the Beeb didn’t get the memo. Or, more likely, they got it and just didn’t care because it didn’t fit their narrative. Which is why they aired a documentary that featured diabolically edited footage of the speech — footage that made Trump appear to say the following:

We’re going to walk down to the Capitol… I’ll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell.

The truth, of course, is that Trump said no such thing. Those snippets of his speech were around an hour apart and were therefore utterly out of context. Of all the people that a news organization would seem to be duty-bound to quote accurately, heads of state would be right at the top of the list, no?

Um, no. At least not if you’re the America-hating and Trump-deranged Beeb.

But why would the world’s leading news organization — an organization that had to know it’d be called out for such an easily disprovable lie — commit such a reckless act of ballistic podiatry?

Answer: Because, just like the fabulist’s scorpion, the Beeb knows no other way. Even though its only hope of navigating safely across the River of Lies is on the back of the Frog of Truth, the BBC can’t deny its essential anti-American nature and therefore can’t help but spread falsehoods about Le Bête Orange.

And they’re about to get their trousers sued off for it.

On Sunday, the BBC’s director-general did the honorable thing and resigned in the wake of a whistleblower dossier that exposed the news organization’s journalistic treachery. In a letter to staff, 58-year-old Tim Davie, who’d served in that role since September 2020, said quitting the job “is entirely my decision,” adding, “Overall the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as director-general I have to take ultimate responsibility.”

Uh-huh. Methinks Davie and CEO Deborah Turness, who also resigned, just wanted to, you know, spend more time with their families.

Of course, corrections never get the same attention as the initial misinformation, which means that millions of people — and most Europeans, I’d guess — have thought for years that Trump incited a riot. To his credit, he doesn’t forget that sort of thing. And he’s the World’s Best Counterpuncher. Which is why he keeps fighting to clear his name almost five years later.

So what happens to the BBC? The New York Times reports that the Beeb is “facing its gravest crisis in decades.” But we know better. They’ll probably settle for an undisclosed amount, and then they’ll get right back to slanting the news against the American president. As we put it in yesterday’s Executive News Summary: “The question now is whether the BBC will let its scapegoats take the blame and continue with its biased reporting, or if it will take the opportunity to adopt balanced reporting.”

I know the dudes in our editorial shop. When they posed that question, they were slapping their knees.