BBC Accused of Doctoring Trump January 6 Speech: What We Know
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The BBC has been accused of doctoring a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump in a program that aired a week before the 2024 presidential election, making him appear to encourage the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The British broadcaster "completely" misled viewers by splicing together separate sections of a speech Trump gave that day in a Panorama program, a former adviser to the BBC wrote in an internal whistleblowing dossier, The Telegraph newspaper reported...
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