Expert: Acosta video distributed by White House was doctored

A video distributed by the Trump administration to support its argument for banning CNN reporter Jim Acosta from the White House appears to have been doctored to make Acosta look more aggressive than he was during an exchange with a White House intern, an independent expert said Thursday.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted the video, which shows Acosta asking President Donald Trump a question on Wednesday as the intern tries to take his microphone away. But a frame-by-frame comparison with an Associated Press video of the same incident shows that the one tweeted by Sanders appears to have been altered to speed up Acosta’s arm movement as he touches the intern’s arm, according to Abba Shapiro, an independent video producer who examined the footage at AP’s request.

Earlier, Shapiro noticed that frames in the tweeted video were frozen to slow down the action, allowing it to run the same length as the AP one.

The tweeted video also does not have any audio, which Shapiro said would make it easier to alter. It’s also unlikely the differences could be explained by technical glitches or by video compression — a reduction in a video’s size to enable it to play more smoothly on some sites — because the slowing of the video and the acceleration that followed are “too precise to be an accident,” said Shapiro, who trains instructors to use video editing software.

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He brought his hand down to 'protect' the mike
This was sped up to make it appear 'more' aggressive.

Maybe, but it was still aggressive, He did push her arm away

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Sure. I recall the Zimmerman 911 call being altered by teh media, but nothing happened, and some low level tech got fired for "unauthorized" editing.

women should be in home taking care of the kids

It was what it was. The video "doctoring" is some irrelevant petty shit. It barely changes things

No. it gives Acosta an out.

The video didn't need to be altered

And what kind of useless White House press secretary uses it without verification?

Shit, all she had to do was go to Youtube and find 20 versions of it.

INstead she went to Infowars

Your fired

I saw the entire thing LIVE and Acosta barely even grazed her arm. In fact, his left arm was areas headed in the downward motion when that stupid bitch reached over for his microphone.

(And SHE'S the one who broke protocol, not him)

Here's the live footage I shot off my TV set

Typo:

In fact his left arm was ALREADY* headed in the downward motion

Who cares? SOB deserves it.

Found the original undoctored version..