Sarah Sanders Shares Doctored Video of CNN's Jim Acosta with More lies from the Trump administration
NOTE: Above Video has same video footage, check it out and compare it with the false claim by Sarah Sanders and her doctored video.
KLAMATH FALLS, OR— More lies from the Trump administration
The White House has shared footage posted by an editor of a conspiracy theory website showing Jim Acosta making contact with a Trump aide, in a bid to justify its suspension of the CNN reporter’s press pass.
Mr. Acosta “placed his hands on” a female aide trying to retrieve a microphone as the journalist repeatedly questioned the president, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed in a statement posted to Twitter.
The incident occurred during a fiery press conference in which reporters and Mr. Trump clashed over his divisive rhetoric in the run-up to the midterms.
Footage showed Mr. Acosta attempting to keep the microphone during his questioning of Mr. Trump, while the female aide tried three times to grab the microphone from him.
On her final attempt, Mr. Acosta’s free hand briefly blocks the aide’s arm, as Mr. Trump refuses to answer the reporter’s questions.
Announcing Mr. Acosta’s suspension, Ms. Sanders said the White House would “never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job”.
Ms. Sanders posted partial video footage of the incident, alongside a statement which read: “We stand by our decision to revoke this individual’s hard pass. We will not tolerate the inappropriate behavior clearly documented in this video.”
The video, which has no audio and is of notably low quality, shows the moment Mr. Acosta’s hand blocks the aide’s attempts to grab the microphone. It repeats the moment six times, each time zooming further into the brief moment of contact.
Many social media users accused Ms. Sanders of posting footage which sped up the contact to make Mr. Acosta’s movement appear more aggressive.
But according to an analysis by The Independent, the video instead appears to have been doctored to freeze for three frames the moment before Mr. Acosta’s hand pushes down on the aide’s arm.
Ms. Sanders’ tweet came exactly two hours after the same video was shared by Paul Joseph Watson, editor-at-large of InfoWars, a far-right conspiracy theory website fronted by Trump-supporter Alex Jones.
Mr. Watson denied altering the footage in an interview with Buzzfeed News. He downloaded a gif file posted elsewhere, “zoomed in, saved it again as an mt2 file – then converted it to an mp4 [video file]”, he told the site. He added: “Digitally it’s gonna look a tiny bit different after processing and zooming in, but I did not in any way deliberately ‘speed up’ or ‘distort’ the video".
In a statement, CNN said the revocation of Mr. Acosta’s credentials “was done in retaliation for his challenging questions at today’s press conference”.
The company said Ms. Huckabee Sanders had “provided fraudulent accusations and cited an incident that never happened”. It added: “This unprecedented decision is a threat to our democracy and the country deserves better. Jim Acosta has our full support.”
Following the incident, the White House press secretary justified the decision by falsely claiming that Acosta had “put hands on” a female White House intern as she tried to take the microphone away from him. Acosta has denied this on Twitter writing, “This is a lie.”
In her statement, Sanders said: “President Trump believes in a free press and expects and welcomes tough questions of him and his Administration. We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern.”
As some Twitter users have pointed out, the speed of the footage also seems to have been altered, making the moment Acosta’s hand briefly came in contact with the intern’s arm appear more aggressive than it does in the unedited footage that has been shared by numerous media outlets, including CNN.
As New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman pointed out on social media, in the raw footage, Acosta can also be heard saying, “Pardon me, ma’am,” after the contact occurred.
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