Did the ABC commit the same editing sins as the BBC on Trump speech?

This week, News Corp commentators have criticised the ABC’s Four Corners for editing Donald Trump’s January 6 2021 speech in a similar way to the BBC.

The BBC’s director general and CEO of news resigned over a Panaroma edit that spliced together disparate parts of the speech.

Mumbrella has viewed the full Four Corners episode. The relevant portion of Trump’s speech covered by the ABC is below. The bold text was edited from the Four Corners broadcast.

And we’re going to have to fight much harder. And Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us, and if he doesn’t, that will be a, a sad day for our country because you’re sworn to uphold our Constitution.

Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down.

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