"The Newsnight edit spliced together a section of Trump's speech on the day of the riots, in January 2021, in which he urged supporters to walk to the Capitol building, with a later segment of the address in which he urged them to fight like hell. A former White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, criticised the BBC on air at the time for splicing together the footage."
"A similar edit was made in an edition of Panorama that was broadcast a week before the US election. The spliced clip suggested that Trump told the crowd: We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell. The words were taken from sections of his speech almost an hour apart."
BBC Newsnight and Panorama aired edited excerpts of Donald Trump's January 2021 speech that spliced together separate passages to suggest a more explicit call to violent protest. Newsnight's edit joined a section urging supporters to walk to the Capitol with a later segment urging them to 'fight like hell.' A 2022 Newsnight edition contained a similar unlabelled splice. The Panorama edit, broadcast a week before the US election, used words taken from sections almost an hour apart. The edits triggered criticism, executive resignations at the BBC, a billion-dollar lawsuit filed by Trump, and an internal review of editorial standards.
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