Hello Steven,I stand corrected. I thought I had copy-pasted both paragraphs in their entirety but I did not do so for the first. I apologize for this.The complete first paragraph quoted is as follows:"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. Today, we will see whether Republicans stand strong for the integrity of our elections. But whether or not they stand strong for our country —our country, our country has been under siege for a long time. Far longer than this four-year period."The last paragraph of the speech, which was delivered nearly an hour later to the one above, I copy-pasted completely. I repeat below for clarity purposes:"Our brightest days are before us. Our greatest achievements still wait. I think one of our great achievements will be election security, because nobody, until I came along, had any idea how corrupt our elections were. And again, most people would stand there at 9 o’clock in the evening and say, “I want to thank you very much,” and they go off to some other life. But I said something is wrong here, something is really wrong, can’t have happened, and we fight. We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore."I am not incorrect in saying that he was reinforcing his statement that their forthcoming achievements would include election security because, until he came along, nobody had realized how corrupt they were. He realized something was really wrong, it can't have happened and we fight. We fight like hell and if you do not, you're not going to have a country anymore.The initial words of "marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patritically make your voices heard" were forgotten and the people responded to his rallying call to fight for hell.Of course Trump is furious. I am sure he will sue the BBC (remember when he advised Teresa May to sue the EU?). But these are not fake news - as he loves to call them. According to The Telegraph (which I also read, among others) claims that the White House attacks "Leftist propaganda machine" over biased doctoring of president's speech". Everybody knows that the ending of a speech is vital because:1. It highlights the important material2. It gives the next course of action3. It clearly indicates the speech is over.Under the first point, he highlighted that the importance of election security (not to repeat his usual words that the election was stolen).Under the next course of action, he never uttered the words "to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard". On the contrary, he stressed "we fight, we fight like hell". This is the course of action he was after.Then the speech came to an end.Regardless of what the EGSC says, what Michael Prescott said, I do not think that Panorama was purposefully deceitful or dishonest. You can say they made a mistake in their editing (some would say a terrible mistake in their editing) but they were not dishonest. They did not invent anything nor add anything that was not already there.
Ivonne Holliday ● 4d