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If you'd seen the before/after video clips you'd understand that this is a pretty big deal. The BBC spliced two separate video clips nearly 1hr apart to make ou

by cbeach 9mo ago

If you'd seen the before/after video clips you'd understand that this is a pretty big deal. The BBC spliced two separate video clips nearly 1hr apart to make out that Trump was an insurrectionist. Original quote: "We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women" Manipulated BBC version of quote: "We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol, and I'll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjPlfUt4S9U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjPlfUt4S9U If you dislike Trump, you should be angry at the BBC for lending legitimacy to Trump's "fake news" narrative.

watwut 9mo ago
And still, overwhelming majority of manipulation os making Trump saner and more coherent And yes, he was responsibke for the violent attempt to overthrow the election. And yes he is both criminal amd failed businessman.
- cbeach 9mo ago
  For someone who's a criminal and a failure, he seems to be doing a lot of good for the American people. Inflation down, stock markets at record highs, real GDP growth up, energy prices stable and US energy production at record high levels. Low unemployment, high wage growth, small-business optimism surveys improved, massive growth in foreign inward investment, illegal border crossings nearly completely eliminated, Venezuela's evil narco-terrorist illegitimate leader in prison, Iran's nuclear threat eliminated, ceasefire achieved in Gaza, and a Trump-led, UN-approved Board of Peace established to continue the humanitarian aid and rebuild the Gaza strip.
monooso 9mo ago
The BBC should not have cut together the footage in the way that they did. But let's be clear, the edited footage does not misrepresent the nature of what happened; Trump was an insurrectionist. You don't have to take my (or the BBC's) word for it. Jack Smith's final report [1] makes it clear that Trump knew what he was doing on January 6th (emphasis mine): > ...the evidence established that the violence was foreseeable to Mr. Trump, that he caused it, that it was beneficial to his plan to interfere with the certification, and that when it occurred, he made a conscious choice not to stop it and instead to leverage it for more delay. The main reason Trump wasn't charged with insurrection was down to the lack of case law (emphasis mine): > [insurrection] typically involves overthrowing a sitting government, rather than maintaining power... As such, the case would likely be bogged down for years as Trump attempted to wiggle through his favourite loophole, "nobody anticipated such an awful person being in charge." [1]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-full-special-counsel-report-on-trumps-jan-6-actions https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-full-special-...

by cbeach 9mo ago

watwut 9mo ago

And still, overwhelming majority of manipulation os making Trump saner and more coherent And yes, he was responsibke for the violent attempt to overthrow the election. And yes he is both criminal amd failed businessman.

cbeach 9mo ago
For someone who's a criminal and a failure, he seems to be doing a lot of good for the American people. Inflation down, stock markets at record highs, real GDP growth up, energy prices stable and US energy production at record high levels. Low unemployment, high wage growth, small-business optimism surveys improved, massive growth in foreign inward investment, illegal border crossings nearly completely eliminated, Venezuela's evil narco-terrorist illegitimate leader in prison, Iran's nuclear threat eliminated, ceasefire achieved in Gaza, and a Trump-led, UN-approved Board of Peace established to continue the humanitarian aid and rebuild the Gaza strip.

monooso 9mo ago

The BBC should not have cut together the footage in the way that they did. But let's be clear, the edited footage does not misrepresent the nature of what happened; Trump was an insurrectionist. You don't have to take my (or the BBC's) word for it. Jack Smith's final report [1] makes it clear that Trump knew what he was doing on January 6th (emphasis mine): > ...the evidence established that the violence was foreseeable to Mr. Trump, that he caused it, that it was beneficial to his plan to interfere with the certification, and that when it occurred, he made a conscious choice not to stop it and instead to leverage it for more delay. The main reason Trump wasn't charged with insurrection was down to the lack of case law (emphasis mine): > [insurrection] typically involves overthrowing a sitting government, rather than maintaining power... As such, the case would likely be bogged down for years as Trump attempted to wiggle through his favourite loophole, "nobody anticipated such an awful person being in charge." [1]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-full-special-counsel-report-on-trumps-jan-6-actions https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-full-special-...