Acosta is a massive douchebag. He larps like he's some paragon of justice "journalist" but he's just a disrespectful grandstanding jackass, and his behavior has

Acosta is a massive douchebag. He larps like he's some paragon of justice "journalist" but he's just a disrespectful grandstanding jackass, and his behavior has been getting more and more egregious from press conference to press conference. If you watch the whole clip and don't even focus on the physical interaction between Acosta and the woman, it's not only really apparent that this guy is the hero of a movie in his own mind, but you can hear other journalists in the crowd groaning as he continues to grandstand after being told his time was over and it was the next person's turn for a question. If you completely ignore the physical interaction between Acosta and the woman, you see more than enough reason to revoke his press pass. This whole thing blew up over accusations of a "karate chop" which obviously did not happen, but that's an easy headline, made even more believable with possibly altered footage. Putting that aside though, the dude's unarguably inappropriately (at a professional level) touching a woman as she tries to take the mic away from him after he's been told his time is up. Focusing on the force involved in the touching seems like a red herring as the touching, especially after not willingly giving the mic up when he was told to, was inappropriate to begin with. It seems like a core "Trump" tactic is to slightly mislead, such that people tear the misleading bit apart, and in doing so, get the point he wants across to the people watching, while making the dissecters seems silly. For example, there was that time when he tweeted about how the costs of a new Air Force One were out of control, and would cost more than four billion dollars. Everyone tore him apart over this saying he was "lying," and that the actual cost was... four point nine billion. So yes, he made a factually inaccurate statement by exaggerating the number, but in doing so, got the press to make his point for him. This seems like another one of these kinds of things. Or it could just be an encoding aberration.