"The edited clip had Trump saying: We're gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you and we fight. We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not gonna have a country anymore."
"That specific phrase as Trump said it that day, near the beginning of his remarks, was: We're gonna walk down, and I'll be there with you, we're gonna walk down, we're gonna walk down any one you want but I think right here, we're gonna walk down to the Capitol and we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen."
"In the aftermath, BBC Director General Tim Davie and News chief Deborah Turness resigned, and Trump's lawyers sent a letter to the public broadcaster threatening to sue for a whopping $1 billion unless the BBC met three demands: issue a full and fair retraction of the documentary, apologize to Trump, and appropriately compensate President Trump for the har"
A 2024 BBC Panorama documentary used an edited clip that combined separate portions of Donald Trump's Jan. 6, 2021 speech, creating the impression that an invitation to march to the Capitol and an exhortation to "fight like hell" were contiguous. The actual speech shows the invitation occurred near the beginning and the "fight like hell" passage appeared closer to the end. NPR posted the full video and transcript for review. The inaccurate edit led to the BBC Director General and News chief resigning, and Trump's lawyers threatened a $1 billion lawsuit unless the BBC retracted, apologized, and compensated him; Trump had demanded those three items by a Friday deadline and received two of the three.
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