White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stood by her tweet of an apparently doctored video of CNN’s Jim Acosta, manipulated to make it appear that he got physical with a White House press intern.
“The question is: did the reporter make contact or not?,” Sanders said in a statement Thursday. “The video is clear, he did. We stand by our statement.”
The video appears to be taken from fringe far-right website InfoWars to make it look like Acosta chopped down on the intern’s arm. In reality, she reached into his personal space repeatedly to grab his microphone, which he held onto as he tried to get President Donald Trump to answer his question.
The White House has used the fabricated physical altercation as grounds to revoke Acosta’s press pass, a move that reporters of all stripes and ideologies have condemned.
Will Sanders resign before or after the Dems take control of the House, and have the power to call her to testify? I’m betting on the former.
What’s even more bizarre is that Sanders
took it from the loony Alex Jones.
This is akin to a press secretary in a prior administration mouthing the inanities of the John Birch Society.
“Fluoridation!”
That poor woman
Sarah, a whole lot of people saw what happened live. A whole lot of people saw the recording of what happened within minutes of its occurrence. Sadly, the Infowars crowd and credulous devotees might believe the imagined version, but the real world saw the real version.
Trumpers don’t seem to understand the concept of video recording.