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| Corey Lewandowski: Trump campaign manager charged with alleged assault | Corey Lewandowski: Trump campaign manager charged with alleged assault |
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| Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was charged with battery on Tuesday over an incident involving a reporter during a rally earlier this month. | Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was charged with battery on Tuesday over an incident involving a reporter during a rally earlier this month. |
| Police in Jupiter, Florida, released footage of Lewandowski grabbing the arm of Michelle Fields, at the time a Breitbart reporter, on 8 March. In the clip, Fields can be seen wearing a cream blazer in the bottom left of the crowd. Lewandowski appears to grab her arm and pull her back, while Trump continues to walk forwards. | |
| The police report states: “Lewandowski grabbed Fields’s left arm with his right hand causing her to turn and step back.” Fields showed police her left forearm which “appeared to show a grabbing-type injury”, according to the investigating officer. | The police report states: “Lewandowski grabbed Fields’s left arm with his right hand causing her to turn and step back.” Fields showed police her left forearm which “appeared to show a grabbing-type injury”, according to the investigating officer. |
| Trump said his campaign manager was “absolutely innocent”. He “will enter a plea of not guilty and looks forward to his day in court. He is completely confident that he will be exonerated”, the Republican frontrunner said. | |
| The GOP frontrunner questioned the veracity of Fields’ complaint. | The GOP frontrunner questioned the veracity of Fields’ complaint. |
| Wow, Corey Lewandowski, my campaign manager and a very decent man, was just charged with assaulting a reporter. Look at tapes-nothing there! | Wow, Corey Lewandowski, my campaign manager and a very decent man, was just charged with assaulting a reporter. Look at tapes-nothing there! |
| Trump’s spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, appeared on CNN to downplay the incident, saying it was standard for a bit of pushing and shoving to occur on the campaign trail and not something serious. | |
| “This is not different to when I’m in the middle of the scrum and get smacked by the television networks,” said Pierson, saying she wouldn’t sue the TV networks if a cameraman gave her a small cut. | “This is not different to when I’m in the middle of the scrum and get smacked by the television networks,” said Pierson, saying she wouldn’t sue the TV networks if a cameraman gave her a small cut. |
| “These types of things are not uncommon, to be jostled or moved or hit, from a campaign or a media person ... This is absurd, this is ridiculous, and it will be beat,” she said. | “These types of things are not uncommon, to be jostled or moved or hit, from a campaign or a media person ... This is absurd, this is ridiculous, and it will be beat,” she said. |
| Trump and Pierson both say that Fields changed her story, a claim the reporter denied on Twitter. | Trump and Pierson both say that Fields changed her story, a claim the reporter denied on Twitter. |
| Why aren't people looking at this reporters earliest statement as to what happened, that is before she found out the episode was on tape? | Why aren't people looking at this reporters earliest statement as to what happened, that is before she found out the episode was on tape? |
| Because my story never changed. Seriously, just stop lying. https://t.co/1fz9cBHOuT | Because my story never changed. Seriously, just stop lying. https://t.co/1fz9cBHOuT |
| Fields has said she was attempting to ask Trump a question when Lewandowski grabbed her. Two days after the incident, she wrote her account of the incident in a post on Brietbart. | Fields has said she was attempting to ask Trump a question when Lewandowski grabbed her. Two days after the incident, she wrote her account of the incident in a post on Brietbart. |
| 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. | 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. |
| Fields tweeted pictures of her bruised arm after the incident. She resigned from Breitbart a week later, stating that the rightwing website had not supported her. | Fields tweeted pictures of her bruised arm after the incident. She resigned from Breitbart a week later, stating that the rightwing website had not supported her. |
| I guess these just magically appeared on me @CLewandowski_ @realDonaldTrump. So weird. pic.twitter.com/oD8c4D7tw3 | I guess these just magically appeared on me @CLewandowski_ @realDonaldTrump. So weird. pic.twitter.com/oD8c4D7tw3 |
| Lewandowski has denied he touched her. | Lewandowski has denied he touched her. |
| @MichelleFields you are totally delusional. I never touched you. As a matter of fact, I have never even met you. | @MichelleFields you are totally delusional. I never touched you. As a matter of fact, I have never even met you. |
| But he turned himself in to Jupiter police around 8am on Tuesday, reports the Palm Beach Post. | |
| Lewandowski is due to appear in court on 4 May, one day after the Indiana Republican primary. His lawyers are Scott Richardson of West Palm Beach and Kendall Coffey of Miami, one a former first assistant state attorney in Palm Beach County, the later a former US attorney for the southern district of Florida and a litigator in high-profile cases, including the 2000 presidential election recount. | |
| The Associated Press contributed to this report | The Associated Press contributed to this report |