There is a difference between "quoting" and "editing" as you infer it.I see your points here however, facts and evidence can be altered. Case in point: Jan. 6th video of Trumps Rally vs Unedited video of the Rally. Democrats have used CNN's video as "evidence" that Trump incited an insurrection on the Capitol Building when competent minds viewing the unedited video know what his message was and understood what he said.
If they took his speech, chopped it and rearranged it to say something entirely different, then you'd have a point. if they took partial phrases or sentences out of context, then that it a problem too. Quoting the repetition of key words or phrases when they are used repetitively in a speech, especially when those words speak to the larger context and potential intent? NOT "altering of evidence".
Watch the entire video of his rally speech (and others). Watch what happened at the Capitol immediately after he gave the "stop the steal" speech at the rally. Watch the video of the actual events that then occurred when the "tourists" were just wanting to "wear hats and wave flags" but somehow ended up climbing the walls, assaulting police, getting killed trying to break into the chamber.
It is disingenuous if not completely ignorant of anyone to claim that the rally/s and the coup attempt are not directly related to each other, ESPECIALLY the same people who scream about the recent "race riots" being "caused by Democrat leaders".
A "stop the (vote) steal" rally immediately followed by an attempt to prevent an Electoral college vote from being completed?
Hmmmmm.
