Posted on 11/09/2018 8:41:48 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump has insisted that a video the White House shared of CNN's Jim Acosta at a press conference "wasn't doctored" to make it appear he aggressively touched a female White House intern who was trying to wrest the microphone from him.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders shared a video via Twitter of the moment between Acosta and the aide, which some claimed had been "doctored" to make it appear like a more intense moment than it was.
The video originated with Paul Joseph Watson of the far-right conspiracy website InfoWars. He slowed down a portion of the video and zoomed in on the physical interaction between Costa and the intern - making the contact seem more forceful - but the balance among technical experts was that the video didn't appear to have been otherwise altered.
"Nobody manipulated it. Give me a break!" Trump said when asked Friday. "That’s dishonest reporting." He added, "It wasn’t doctored. They gave a close-up view, that’s not doctoring."
Trump rounded on Acosta, a CNN correspondent at the White House whose "hard pass" was revoked after the incident. "I think Jim Acosta is a very unprofessional man," he said outside the White House before departing on a trip to Europe. "He does this with everybody. He gets paid to do that. He gets paid to burst in. He's a very unprofessional guy whether it was me or Ronald Reagan or anybody else, he would have done the same thing."
At the press conference Wednesday, a day after the midterm elections, Acosta asked Trump about his campaign rhetoric regarding the so-called migrant "caravan" out of Central America.
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Who still doesn’t think the MSM is an enemy of the Republic?
As a video editor, I looked into this after I heard the claim and compared the video Sanders put on Twitter with every other video I could find. They’re all the same.
HOORAY President Donald J. Trump! Thank you, sir.
Media (the Dems propaganda arm) just doing what Dems always do: accuse others of what they themselves do...
Proof positive that if you get 200 reporters in the same room, none of them can report the facts straight. Videos don’t lie.
Not that I want to put this intern in the middle but has anyone asked or gotten a comment from her?
I snagged my GIF from YouTube right after it happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1WkFpbHIpI&feature=youtu.be&t=17
I never saw it until just now. I had to watch the loop three times. It looked like he was just protecting the mic, but then I noticed he used his free arm to push her arm down at the elbow. In slowmo it looks like a push, but in real time, I could definitely understand qualifying that as a hit.
Just the fact that he refused to give up the mic when he was directed to do so by the President of the United States should have been more that enough to ban him.
Tempest in a tea pot.
I’ve wondered the same.
Oh sure - have her blab to the media her thoughts on the incident. Fast-track firing and destruction of her career.
There's a reason why any and all communications out of the White House goes through the Press Secretary.
Here’s a easy fix, Allow them ONE question, take the mic, then answer.
Someone pointed out yesterday that if you keep watching for a few more seconds Trump starts coming around the podium and Acosta just about throws the mic to the intern. Watch it. It’s pretty funny.
Fair enough
Not only that, but the a-hole was shouting stuff during the Kim Jong Un meeting. Come on!
I left my computer & watched the entire conference with rapt attention.
Acosta definately hit the young intern. Perhaps not intentionally, but he did strike her. She had to shift to keep her balance.
At the VERY LEAST, it was UNWANTED TOUCHING.
Acosta eserve to lose his press creds.
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