"The BBC has been accused of selectively editing a Donald Trump speech to make it appear clearer that he encouraged the US Capitol attack, according to a former external adviser to the corporation. An edition of Panorama, broadcast a week before the US election, spliced together clips of a Trump speech made on January 6. 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."
"In a covering letter to the dossier, which he sent to the BBC's board, Prescott reportedly said he was circulating the document out of despair at inaction by the BBC Executive when issues come to light. Prescott said in his report: It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it. The fact that [Trump] did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reasons there were no federal charges for incitement to riot."
Panorama reportedly edited clips of Donald Trump's January 6 speech so phrases from nearly an hour apart appeared contiguous, making it seem he urged followers to march on the Capitol. The edited segment omitted a passage in which Trump urged supporters to "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." A former independent external adviser, Michael Prescott, filed a memo alleging the edit was misleading and noted some march footage preceded the speech. Prescott sent a dossier to the BBC board, saying he acted from despair at inaction; the BBC said it treats feedback seriously.
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