since this post has been immediately brigaded by far right lunatics, it's worth clarifying these people have resigned based on a far right wing pressure campaign over the way a trump speech was presented, in a third-party-produced current affairs show, that was broadcast last year.
this[0] article by the BBC covers the details of that fine. here's the meat of it, for the extremely lazy:
> In his speech in Washington DC on 6 January 2021, Trump said: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women."
> However, in Panorama's edit, he was shown saying: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol... and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell."
> The two sections of the speech that were edited together were more than 50 minutes apart.
> The "fight like hell" comment was taken from a section where President Trump discussed how "corrupt" US elections were. In total, he used the words "fight" or "fighting" 20 times in the speech.
> After showing the president speaking, the programme played footage of flag-waving men marching on the Capitol, the Telegraph said.
> According to the leaked memo, this "created the impression President Trump's supporters had taken up his 'call to arms'". But that footage was in fact shot before the president had started speaking.
it is worth considering the bar that is being demanded here, and how every single other news source in the world would compare against that bar.
the reason this is in the news now is that someone "leaked" an internal memo from the BBC that discussed the show. the claim is that it was fundamentally unfair to suggest that trump was encouraging these people. since that day he has:
- explicitly claimed he supported them and what they did [1]
- given federal pardons to ~all of them, including ones who had commited previous crimes and then after being pardoned committed further crimes [2]
this[0] article by the BBC covers the details of that fine. here's the meat of it, for the extremely lazy:
> In his speech in Washington DC on 6 January 2021, Trump said: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women."
> However, in Panorama's edit, he was shown saying: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol... and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell."
> The two sections of the speech that were edited together were more than 50 minutes apart.
> The "fight like hell" comment was taken from a section where President Trump discussed how "corrupt" US elections were. In total, he used the words "fight" or "fighting" 20 times in the speech.
> After showing the president speaking, the programme played footage of flag-waving men marching on the Capitol, the Telegraph said.
> According to the leaked memo, this "created the impression President Trump's supporters had taken up his 'call to arms'". But that footage was in fact shot before the president had started speaking.
it is worth considering the bar that is being demanded here, and how every single other news source in the world would compare against that bar.
the reason this is in the news now is that someone "leaked" an internal memo from the BBC that discussed the show. the claim is that it was fundamentally unfair to suggest that trump was encouraging these people. since that day he has:
- explicitly claimed he supported them and what they did [1]
- given federal pardons to ~all of them, including ones who had commited previous crimes and then after being pardoned committed further crimes [2]
0: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgzkyk7knzo
1: https://apnews.com/article/trump-jan-6-evolution-downplay-vi...
2: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw4vjvlgxpo