Video of Marjorie Taylor Greene altered to include heckling
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- Published on April 10, 2023 at 20:53
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- By AFP USA
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"We just ran this Infected Animal out of NYC!!!!!" Rapaport said in an April 4, 2023 tweet sharing the video.
The clip shows police escorting Greene, a Republican from the US state of Georgia, out of a crowd as Rapaport appears to yell obscenities are her.
"You filthy animal! You QAnon lunatic!" the actor says in the video.
The footage accumulated more than three million views on Twitter. Rapaport also shared the clip on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, racking up millions of additional views.
Trump supporters and opponents demonstrated outside the Manhattan District Attorney's office on April 4 prior to the former president's arraignment. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection to 2016 a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Greene did give a speech at the rally in New York City, but the video shared online has been manipulated to add a voiceover from Rapaport, an actor who has appeared in numerous films including Deep Blue Sea and TV shows such as Public Morals.
David Mack, a senior breaking news reporter at BuzzFeed News, took the footage while covering the rally. On Twitter, he published his original video and the actor's edited version side by side.
"This is very random but the actor Michael Rapport (sic) appears to have stolen my video of MTG leaving the Trump court today and then added his own voice to make it sound like he was screaming at her the own whole time," Mack said in the April 4 post (archived here).
This is very random but the actor Michael Rapport appears to have stolen my video of MTG leaving the Trump court today and then added his own voice to make it sound like he was screaming at her the own whole time.
— David Mack (@davidmackau) April 4, 2023
his video vs. my original pic.twitter.com/xElcWJMHAW
Mack's video does not feature Rapaport's tirade against Greene. Instead, it includes the sounds of whistles and voices in the crowd.
In a follow-up tweet, Mack said: "i don't really care that he took the video. i care, as someone who spent 9 hours on my feet there as a reporter, that he gave a misleading account of what happened."
AFP reached out to Rapaport for comment, but a response was not forthcoming.
AFP has debunked other false and misleading claims about Trump's indictment here, here and here.
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