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Trump Cover-Up: The Manhandling of a Reporter
National Review ^ | March 11, 2016 | JOHN FUND

Posted on 03/11/2016 11:37:13 AM PST by Steelfish

Trump Cover-Up: The Manhandling of a Reporter Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski with reporters in Palm Beach, March 11, 2016.

by JOHN FUND March 11, 2016.

‘I have to do what I have to do” was Donald Trump’s justification during last night’s debate for why he used what he called a corrupt visa program to hire foreign workers at his properties. After the debate, Trump proved his point when he accused a reporter of fabricating a story that she had been grabbed and bruised by his campaign manager while trying to ask Trump a question.

That denial flies in the face of all the evidence. “This was, in my opinion, made up,” Trump told CNN. “Everybody said nothing happened. Perhaps she made the story up. I think that’s what happened.” Trump may have done what he had to do to protect Corey Lewandowski — his Red Bull–swigging Mini Me — but his statement flies in the face of all evidence. Ben Terris, a reporter at the Washington Post, wrote he witnessed Michelle Fields of Breitbart News approaching Trump after the debate.

He said Lewandowski “grabbed her arm and yanked her out of the way,” bruising her. An audiotape of a conversation between Terris and Fields that took place in real time confirms the incident. (There is video footage documenting the immediate before-and-after of the incident, though not Lewandowski grabbing Fields.) For more than 24 hours, Fields did not comment or publicly discuss the episode, but when accused of making it up she released a photo showing finger-shaped bruising on her arm.

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To: TXSearcher

“Too bad that video is now surfacing that seems to show Corey grabbing the reporter.”

It’s actually come to the point you can tell a posters candidate by the lack of honesty in their posts. LOL!!!!!


41 posted on 03/11/2016 12:08:22 PM PST by moehoward
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To: Steelfish

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/04/hedge-fund-magnate-backing-cruz-is-major-investor-in-breitbart-news-network-205434#ixzz42cY1CyFK

Hedge-fund magnate backing Cruz is major investor in Breitbart News Network

04/13/15

EXCERPT

Robert Mercer, the co-CEO of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, is the main donor behind a network of pro-Cruz super PACs that have raised at least $31 million to date, according to a recent New York Times report. Mercer has spent more than $15 million on conservative political campaigns and causes since 2012.

What the Times report did not mention is that Mercer is also one of the most generous backers for Breitbart News Network, a group of right-wing news and opinion site that command considerable influence among the conservative base.


42 posted on 03/11/2016 12:11:52 PM PST by maggief
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To: Steelfish

More to follow!


43 posted on 03/11/2016 12:14:32 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you.")
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To: Steelfish

Normally I would suggest that you ask the mod to delete this bs post but it’s best to leave it up so that everyone can see what you are and how your side operates.


44 posted on 03/11/2016 12:15:09 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative
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To: TXSearcher
Too bad that video is now surfacing that seems to show Corey grabbing the reporter.

Just the opposite, video shows he was not in position. Instead it was another person with security detail. Unless you are talking about a new video. If so bring it forward.

45 posted on 03/11/2016 12:18:20 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Oh come off it. We have seen enough and more of Cruz bashing around here. Sorry to offend your “Dear Leader.” If you can’t bear the heat, then get out of the kitchen. Your “Dear Leader” apparently can do no wrong.


46 posted on 03/11/2016 12:19:16 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

How can it be a coverup when it’s been all over the news for 3 days?


47 posted on 03/11/2016 12:19:17 PM PST by Fhios (Going Donald Trump is as close to going John Galt as we'll get.)
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Another nothing burger.


48 posted on 03/11/2016 12:21:26 PM PST by Jenny217
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To: Steelfish

Lies. Already proven wrong. MSM and establishment are frantic at this point. Not even attempting to be truthful.


49 posted on 03/11/2016 12:21:59 PM PST by Shortstop7
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To: moehoward

There is a brand new video showing Corey reaching for her just as she fell. Brand new.


50 posted on 03/11/2016 12:24:23 PM PST by 1638G
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To: showme_the_Glory; Steelfish
Steelfish, why are you carping on this?

Steelfish, don't you know this is a red herring?

51 posted on 03/11/2016 12:25:28 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: 1638G

Is is this? Also posted on twitter... http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/03/11/video-shows-trump-aide-grabbing-reporter.html


52 posted on 03/11/2016 12:26:48 PM PST by opus86
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To: El Cid

No, there is now actual video of Trump’s campaign manager engaged in the manhandling. The beginning of the end of Trump. About time this Trumpoonery-Buffoonery ends.


53 posted on 03/11/2016 12:27:17 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: circlecity

Video has now surfaced, and Fields is pursuing criminal charges against Lewandowski.


54 posted on 03/11/2016 12:29:52 PM PST by KansasGirl (Ted Cruz for President!)
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To: opus86

“Is is this? Also posted on twitter... http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/03/11/video-shows-trump-aide-grabbing-reporter.html";

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That is what this is all about?

Interesting to see that the reporter was involved in another “incident” at an occupy wall street protest:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4584445/michelle-fields-occupy-wall-street&beta=


55 posted on 03/11/2016 12:33:34 PM PST by Blaine Fabin
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To: Steelfish

56 posted on 03/11/2016 12:34:09 PM PST by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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To: PghBaldy

Probably need to go back to BB and see the updates.


57 posted on 03/11/2016 12:34:26 PM PST by MLL
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To: El Cid

That’s a whopper.


58 posted on 03/11/2016 12:36:46 PM PST by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: Steelfish
Although the reporter here is white, this is looking more and more like one of the many “rape” hoaxes and “gunning down an innocent, unarmed black teenager” hoaxes the left regularly trumps up. At first there is a great hue and cry about the “horrible” thing that was done to the “innocent” du jure. Then there's an investigation where it turns out the “innocent” wasn't so innocent after all and may have faked all or part of her testimony, as happened with Tawana Brawley. Here the "innocent" appears to have made a very bad, improper move toward Trump and been properly stopped by a security man in a proper takedown. Obviously, just like Tawana Brawley, who concocted her story to avoid trouble with her parents, this individual needed to avoid trouble with her employer for her improper conduct; thus, she did a Brawley and tried to frame Lewandowski.
59 posted on 03/11/2016 12:41:13 PM PST by libstripper
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To: Robert DeLong
Just the opposite, video shows he was not in position. Instead it was another person with security detail. Unless you are talking about a new video. If so bring it forward.

I apologize if you have a clear view video showing another person grabbing that reporter. I would really like to see that, if you would share it

C-span....Different angle of Michelle Fields, Ben Terris and Corey Lewandowski Start at 8 where Lewandowski reaches out to her and then SS reacts afterwards.

60 posted on 03/11/2016 12:45:37 PM PST by TXSearcher (The RINO rebellion is being won by a RINO.......truth IS stranger than fiction.)
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