Saw another video all over the place where Corey was allegedly reaching for her arm (but honestly I could not tell who was who and there were many people in the way)...but what strikes me about that video is that there was no sense anywhere of anything "violent", and it seems absurd to base the concept of a "violent" campaign culture on it.
"New video of Donald Trumps press conference Tuesday evening shows that the Washington Posts account of an altercation involving Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields could not possibly have happened as Ben Terris reported.
In conducting our own due diligence, we have reviewed as much video footage and other evidence as possible, and present it in the interest of transparency.
Contrary to what Donald Trump said Thursday evening after the GOP debate, the incident certainly happened. However, the person who made contact with Fields was likely not Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. snip...
However, Lewandowski was not the only man with short-cropped hair and a suit walking near Trump. And he was walking on the opposite side of Trump from Fields, and Terris. A photograph by Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford, Terriss colleague, released by ABC News World News Tonight, and taken seconds before the altercation took place, shows two men with short-cropped hair.
One, to Trumps left, is Lewandowski. The other, behind Trump and to his right, is a security official, who resembles Lewandowski and is slightly taller.
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In that video, as well as in the WPTV video, as Trump moves, Lewandowski is clearly visible on Trumps left-hand side.
Fields can be seen again at 16:08, at Trumps right, apparently at about the same moment when the ABC News photograph was taken.
The altercation itself is not shown, but Fields quickly disappears from view, as if pulled back. At 16:18, Trump appears in the frame, holding a book and asking, Whose book is this? which he also is heard saying in the audio published by Politico, right before Fields and Terris discuss what happened. He seems unaware of any altercation.
At 16:21, the security official appears on Trumps right and extends his arm to move a young man aside.
At 16:31, Lewandowski and the security official appear in the frame together again Lewandowski at left and the security official, with earpiece, on the right. Both have short-cropped hair, in Terriss terms.
Fields was indeed hurt in the altercation, and published a photograph of her bruises. Yet the available evidence from WPTV and ABC suggests that it was unlikely that Lewandowski was the person who caused her injuries. Given the similarity in appearance between Lewandowski and the security official, and given the fact that Lewandowski was walking on the other side of Trump from where Fields was at the time, the possibility of mistaken identity cannot be ruled out. Indeed, given Lewandowskis adamant denials (coupled with statements inappropriately impugning Fieldss character), it is the likeliest explanation.
In addition, the injury may have been accidental, owing simply to the chaos of the press scrum. A video filmed by a local CBS reporter earlier in the evening shows Fields standing near Trump and the same security official, with no concern or alarm on the part of Trump campaign staff.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/11/trump-presser-ben-terris-misidentified/