WASHINGTON, November 9 -- Prominent CNN personalities on Thursday accused White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders of posting an altered video to suggest CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta inappropriately made contact with a White House intern over control of a microphone.
Sanders posted a video Wednesday of Acosta maintaining his grip on a microphone as an intern tried to take it from him during a news conference with President Donald Trump. Sanders used the video as justification for the White House revoking Acosta's press access Wednesday evening — a move that was met with immediate and fierce condemnation from other journalists. On Thursday morning, CNN's Matt Dornic, vice president of communications and digital partnerships, and Brian Stelter, chief media correspondent, both claimed the video had altered speeds to make Acosta seem more aggressive and the intern more demure. "Absolutely shameful, @PressSec. You released a doctored video - actual fake news. History will not be kind to you," Dornic wrote, tagging Sanders' official Twitter handle. Dornic and Stelter suggested the video might have come from the far-right website InfoWars, which has been booted from mainstream social media sites for peddling inflammatory conspiracy theories. Sanders argued later Thursday that the point of releasing the video was to show Acosta made contact with the intern. She did not address whether the video was doctored or whether it came from InfoWars. "The question is: Did the reporter make contact or not?" Sanders told reporters Thursday. "The video is clear, he did. We stand by our statement." Paul Joseph Watson, an alt-right YouTuber with ties to InfoWars, had posted a similar video earlier Wednesday evening. Watson on Thursday denied speeding up the video to make the contact look more aggressive, saying he only zoomed in. He posted a screen shot of the video editing software he said he used, which he said proved the video was not doctored. Source: Politico
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