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Trump rounded on Acosta, a CNN correspondent at the White House whose "hard pass" was revoked after the incident.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.

Trump answered and went to move on to another reporter but Acosta went on to ask about the Russia investigation. When Trump told him he would be moving on and asked Acosta to sit down, a woman who works at the White House, identified as an intern, went to retrieve the microphone but Acosta pulled away.

The White House said it was suspending Acosta's press credentials that allow him on the White House grounds for "placing his hands on" the woman.