London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that another BBC programme had made a similar edit to Trump’s speech, two years before the Panorama documentary. According to the broadsheet, a 2022 episode of BBC Newsnight, a flagship programme for the public broadcaster, also spliced together two separate sections of Trump’s speech to make it appear that the President had called for violence on January 6th.
The reportedly edited version of Trump’s comments, which aired without any flash to indicate an edit, made it seem that he said: “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 hell and if you don’t fight like hell you aren’t gonna have a country any more.”
In the actual address, President Trump urged his supporters to gather at the Capitol building “peacefully and patriotically”. Over fifty minutes later in the speech, while discussing the issue of election integrity, he vowed to “fight like hell” to ensure that elections are held in a free and fair manner.
The BBC Newsnight edit was challenged on air at the time by former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, who resigned from the administration following the January 6th riots. After being played the edited speech, Mulvaney said on the Newsnight programme: “Your video actually spliced together the presentation.”
London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that another BBC programme had made a similar edit to Trump’s speech, two years before the Panorama documentary. According to the broadsheet, a 2022 episode of BBC Newsnight, a flagship programme for the public broadcaster, also spliced together two separate sections of Trump’s speech to make it appear that the President had called for violence on January 6th.
The reportedly edited version of Trump’s comments, which aired without any flash to indicate an edit, made it seem that he said: “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 hell and if you don’t fight like hell you aren’t gonna have a country any more.”
In the actual address, President Trump urged his supporters to gather at the Capitol building “peacefully and patriotically”. Over fifty minutes later in the speech, while discussing the issue of election integrity, he vowed to “fight like hell” to ensure that elections are held in a free and fair manner.
The BBC Newsnight edit was challenged on air at the time by former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, who resigned from the administration following the January 6th riots. After being played the edited speech, Mulvaney said on the Newsnight programme: “Your video actually spliced together the presentation.”