A second BBC program has been found to have doctored a speech from President Trump.
According to a report from The Telegraph, BBC Newsnight edited footage of a Trump speech, making it appear as though he encouraged his supporters to riot ahead of the January 6, 2021, protest. The Newsnight program linked statements spoken nearly an hour apart.
The clip showed President Trump saying, “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and we’re gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women – and we fight. We fight like [removed] and if you don’t fight like [removed] you aren’t gonna have a country anymore.”
In reality, President Trump said, “Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down.”
“Anyone you want, but I think right here, we’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them,” he said, adding nearly an hour later, “Most people would stand there at 9 o’clock in the evening and say I wanna thank you very much, and they go off to some other life, but I said something’s wrong here, something’s really wrong, can’t have happened, and we fight. We fight like [removed], and if you don’t fight like [removed], you’re not gonna have a country anymore.”
A spokesman for Trump’s legal team told the outlet, “It is now clear that BBC engaged in a pattern of defamation against President Trump by intentionally and deceitfully editing his historic speech in order to try and interfere in the Presidential Election.”
“President Trump will continue to hold accountable those who traffic in lies, deception, and fake news,” the spokesman said.
The development marks the second time the BBC has been caught doctoring Trump’s speech.
The BBC has apologized to President Trump after being threatened with a lawsuit. “We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech, rather than excerpts from different points in the speech, and that this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action,” the BBC stated.
