The media was foaming at the mouth today, on the pomp announcement that Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was arrested for assaulting Michelle Fields.
Before you watch the video that was produced by Trump of the crime, read Michelle’s letter, penned on 3/10/16.
I never sought to be part of the story.
On Tuesday night, I went to cover Donald Trump’s press conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida. I was looking to cover the event like I have covered many live political events for Breitbart News, including an uneventful Trump press conference in Palm Beach the week before.
Addressing the gathered reporters and the nation at large, Trump was in an especially jovial mood Tuesday night. The networks just declared he had won the Mississippi Republican primary and, during his speech, that he won Michigan Republican primary as well.
I wasn’t called upon to ask a question during the televised press conference, but afterwards Trump wandered around, stopping at every reporter to take their questions. When he approached me, I asked him about his view on an aspect of affirmative action.
Trump acknowledged the question, but before he could answer I was jolted backwards. Someone had grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me down. I almost fell to the ground, but was able to maintain my balance. Nonetheless, I was shaken.
The Washington Post’s Ben Terris immediately remarked that it was Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who aggressively tried to pull me to the ground. I quickly turned around and saw Lewandowski and Trump exiting the building together. No apology. No explanation for why he did this.
Even if Trump was done taking questions, Lewandowski would be out of line. Campaign managers aren’t supposed to try to forcefully throw reporters to the ground, no matter the circumstance. But what made this especially jarring is that there was no hint Trump was done taking questions. No one was pushing him to get away. He seemed to have been happily answering queries from my fellow reporters just a moment before.
Many people have been asking me on Twitter and in emails what exactly happened Tuesday night. I hope this article answers those questions and I can get back to reporting the news, not being a part of it.
Okay now here’s the footage of Corey trying to forcefully drag Michelle to the ground.
Trump had this to say about the horrid crime.
“I’m very glad that we were able to produce the tape because I don’t see anything. I see virtually nothing,” he told Hannity. “And we’re going to destroy a man’s life over this?”
“If I had not have produced the tape, it would have been much worse,” Trump told Hannity. “Because look at the statement she made, I had to write it down, ‘forcefully thrown reporters to the ground, campaign managers aren’t supposed to forcefully throw campaign managers to the ground’. What ground? I mean, if you look at her face, her expression doesn’t even change.”
“She grabbed me and she had something in her hand, I don’t know what it was,” Trump told Hannity. “It looked like it could have been a pen. But you know, from the standpoint of where we are, who knows what it is. So she grabs me and then he maybe brushed her aside, and we’re going to destroy his life for that? I don’t think so.”
The fuckheads over at the Cruz camp took a very typical position.
“Unfortunately, this abusive behavior seems to be part of the culture of the Trump campaign. Personal attacks, verbal attacks, and now physical attacks have no place in politics or anywhere else in our society,” campaign spokeswoman Alice Stewart said in a statement.
What sort of chicanery is this? Do these people think we do not have eyes in our heads to see this is bogus? It’s one thing to dislike Trump and want to beat him. It’s entirely another thing to try to ruin some guy’s life because he’s a means to an end.
These politicians are going to burn in hell.
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I’ve been to a Trump rally,
Corey Lewandowski grabs small people,
He fears his own size,
If he grabbed me he would get hurt.
Isn’t the real news here that Trump’s campaign manager isn’t Donald Trump?
I watched that tape over and over. Bogus claim and accusation. The reporter was brushed aside, but I fail to see any injury or even a reaction from here that she was “assaulted”. I agree. It’s bullshit.
If I was Trump’s campaign manager, the loathsome bitch reporter WOULD be on the ground, under my heel, as I admonished her “Mind
your manners, Bitch!”
Oh how I despise pushy reporters!
Fly, if you are an atheist, then you don’t get to believe that politicians will burn in hell. You have to do something about them on earth.
The system we have allowed to persist attracts the kinds of politicians we have. If we don’t like that, then we should change the system. Rather than complaining that the winner is always playing baseball instead of soccer, we need to get rid of the baseball field and bat and baseball, and set up a soccer field. We have to set up the kind of game we want to play, in our politics.
This guy has some ideas. How about this?
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2016/01/open-power-updated-electoral-reform-act/
Frog–we are not getting rid of baseball fields, bats or balls. Baseball is America’s game. Fuck soccer.
Lots of kids play soccer all the time in the U.S. But, anyway, if you like, then get rid of soccer fields and have baseball fields.
The point is that we should set up the playing field in politics so that we have the game we want– instead of complaining about how the game is played and who wins it. This is a democratic republic. The voters make the rules. If we don’t want people to win who play by those rules, then change the game and the rules of politics so that the kinds of people who win at politics are the kinds of people you want to lead you.
Shut up frog.
This will fade away quickly. If President Trump truly has a sense of humor, he’ll procure one of those leather 8-Ball jackets for Mr. Lewandowski to wear at all public events.
Ha!
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I can’t see what did or did not happen in that video. We’ll see what the court says.
What “court” frog? Your own little kangaroo court. That one. Where queen frog gets to decide. You have to be a robot.
He was arrested. I assume there will be a trial.
Actually that does not look like a video. It must be a series of still photos.
I’m not a Trump fan but this assault claim is hilarious.
haha