Watch: BBC faces fresh allegations over Trump speech edit broadcast on Newsnight

BBC faces fresh allegations over Trump speech edit on NewsnightSource: BBC

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00:00Another report with spliced clips of that same speech linking words about Donald Trump supporting

00:05a march with a later phrase about fighting. In a news night of June 2022, there was an edit

00:12with similarities to the panorama cut, albeit with more context of President Trump's words about

00:18cheering on senators. But the phrase fight like hell was followed by.

00:23And fight they did when they got to the Capitol.

00:28That edit provoked this response on the programme from a former White House chief of staff.

00:34Your video, and I'm no apologist for the President on this.

00:36No, no, no, I'm not suggesting you are. I'm not suggesting you are, but what I'm saying is that you...

00:40Your video actually spliced together the presentation. He said, we're going to go down and we're going to cheer on our

00:46senators and our House members. And then it actually goes on to say in some of them we might not be able to.

00:50And that line about we fight and fight like hell is actually later in the speech.

00:54Yet your video makes it look like those two things came together.

00:56That's the type of that's the type of messaging here that so many people in my country find frustrating.