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- ABC News
- March 29, 2016
Trump Campaign Manager Charged With Battery of Reporter
Corey Lewandowski was charged in the Michelle Fields incident, police said.
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Fields tweeted in response to Trump, asserting her story never changed.
Because my story never changed. Seriously, just stop lying. https://t.co/1fz9cBHOuT
— Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) March 29, 2016
Fields first spoke about the alleged incident in an op-ed published earlier this month. Fields alleges she was assaulted at Trump’s news conference on March 8, the night of the Michigan, Mississippi and Idaho Republican primaries, after posing a question to the New York real estate mogul.
“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 wrote.
Fields shared a photo on Twitter of her bruised arm the day after the news conference.
I guess these just magically appeared on me @CLewandowski_ @realDonaldTrump. So weird. pic.twitter.com/oD8c4D7tw3
— Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) March 10, 2016
In her op-ed, Fields went on to say The Washington Post’s Ben Terris identified the aggressor as Lewandowski.
\"I watched as a man with short-cropped hair and a suit grabbed her arm and yanked her out of the way. He was Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s 41-year-old campaign manager,\" Terris confirmed.
Lewandowski denied the alleged incident with Fields and called Fields “totally delusional” on Twitter.
@MichelleFields you are totally delusional. I never touched you. As a matter of fact, I have never even met you.
— Corey Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) March 11, 2016
Fields told ABC News' Tom Llamas on March 10 there was \"no excuse\" for the alleged incident.
“The thing is you don’t grab a female reporter or any reporter the way that he grabbed me and you don’t do that and I just feel like there’s no excuse for it,” she said.
When Donald Trump was asked by reporters following the March 10 Republican debate in Florida about the alleged incident two days before, Trump said, \"Everybody said nothing happened. Perhaps she made the story up.”
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