Trump aide charged with misdemeanor battery vs. ex-Breitbart reporter

[Raine1967]

Source: Palm Beach Post

JUPITER — Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump campaign manager, was charged this morning with misdemeanor battery after allegations of forcefully grabbing a reporter at a Jupiter news conference, town police confirmed this morning.

Following a March 8 conference at Trump National Golf Club, Michelle Fields, a 28-year-old reporter formerly with the online Breitbart News Network, said she was grabbed on the arm by Lewandowski, 41, after she asked Trump a question about affirmative action.

Washington Post reporter Ben Terris wrote that he witnessed the battery.

Jupiter police later said they were looking into the incident after Fields filed a report, although investigators had not named Lewandowski.

Read more: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/local/trump-aide-charged-with-misdemeanor-battery-on-ex-/nqtkY/

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ABC news is also reporting this.

[groundloop]

1. Breitbart "News" Network.... that's a hoot

And T-rump most certainly has some upstanding folks working for him. Can you say 'birds of a feather'? This speaks volumes about the kind of president he would be.

[brooklynite]

2. Arrest Report

[Firebrand Gary]

3. That's a wrap, Cruz will be the republican nominee.

I just don't see how Trump overcomes this. His campaign is coming apart at the seams and the GOP is unified against him now. He's toast!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. You know how many times we've said "I don't see how Trump overcomes this" in the past months?

His whole campaign phenomenon is theater of the absurd. It's a Kafka story.

[Firebrand Gary]

6. Yes, but this is a whole new arena.

He will certainly have the most delegates, but the GOP will take it from him at the convention. This was the game changer that the establishment needed.

Wisconsin is the key to denying Trump the threshold, he just lost Wisconsin.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. He didn't commit the assault...

Even if he had, I don't think that would change a thing.

[leftynyc]

5. I hope that's sarcasm

Donnie is going to be the nominee unless it's someone who is not running currently (open convention). It wont be cruz.

[Firebrand Gary]

8. I think he just gave the GOP the ammo they needed.

I could be wrong, but this feels different.

[Sunlei]

7. deadman breibart 'reporter' makes tabloid 'news'. Can hardly see the marks tweeted

[Legends303]

9. If Donald is the nomniee

the GOP is going to get screwed big time.

[AxionExcel]

10. Yet another degenerate bullyboy RepubliBagger (R)

What 30 years of the mechanistic, hypocritical, low, greed-and-hate driven stance of the Republican party hath spawned. He and his ilk are the antithesis of what it means to be an honorable citizen of the United States of America.

[Old Union Guy]

11. So will Breitbart now be arbitrarily redefined as ...

... part of the LIBERAL media?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. Given how quick Breitbart was to throw Fields under the bus....

.....in order to keep themselves in Trump's good graces, probably not.

[Old Vet]

12. Yup, just watched the video of her brutal assult as there saying on cnn.............

Iam no trump fan but it sure looked like she bum rushed him to ask him some questions when trump was being escorted out. Wonder how much she will be paid for mental flashbacks in the lawsuit.

[lark]

14. OMG, the ads just write themselves.

Start - show scene of Trump saying hire the best people who will make the best decisions. Morph to show violent scene with Lewandowski, then newspaper article saying he's been indicted. ? Trumps' decision making skills and show him stating "I'd like to punch him in the face" and other inflammatory rhetoric, and ask is this presidential behavior? Do you want him choosing this type of people to make important decisions?

Easy peasey.