Posted on 05/24/2017 6:57:23 PM PDT by usafa92
Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs claimed Wednesday night that Montana Republican Greg Gianforte "body slammed" him, breaking his glasses in the process, after Jacobs asked him a question about health care.
The altercation happened during an event for Gianforte, who is running for Montana's only congressional seat in a special election set for Thursday, at his campaign headquarters just south of Bozeman, Mont. BuzzFeed News reporter Alexis Levinson retweeted Jacobs' allegation and said that she was present at the altercation. "Ben walked into a room where a local TV crew was set up for an interview with Gianforte. All of a sudden I heard a giant crash and saw Ben's feet fly in the air as he hit the floor," she said in a series of tweets.
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I’m thinking he slipped after tripping over a TV cable exposed on the floor.
No one saw anything.
Witnesses too! Yikes
Guy probably had it coming but agree, can’t assault the guy with people everywhere/watching.
You wait until nobody looking & then bodyslam the little punk.
>I heard the audio. I hate little schmucky reporters too, but you can’t bodyslam them. Especially not the night before the election. If this was assault, even if he was “asking for it,” it is not ok. He may well be charged.
It’s been edited. Nor is his story being told by the media. Stop spreading fake news for our lying press.
“...but you can’t bodyslam them. Especially not the night before the election. If this was assault, even if he was “asking for it,” it is not ok.”
I have to agree. The audio, IMHO, is not good for Gianforte.
Another lib reporter said she saw “feet flying in air” & the eyewitnesses are reporting sketchy details. Setup?
The picture says it all.
I am just posting my opinion from the audio I heard. I wasn’t there and I don’t know if the audio was edited. It sounds kind of bad, but we will see.
That’s a woman baby! Yeah!
Campaign is saying the reporter shoved a mic in his face, aggressively & Greg went to push it away but the reporter grabbed his wrist/tried twist away & fell.
That’s one account of the incident & sounds the most plausible.
Only audio, no visual recording but someone has to have.
Here is what the witnesses are saying:
During that conversation, another man — who we now know is Ben Jacobs of The Guardian — walked into the room with a voice recorder, put it up to Gianforte’s face and began asking if him if he had a response to the newly released Congressional Budget Office report on the American Health Care Act. Gianforte told him he would get to him later. Jacobs persisted with his question. Gianforte told him to talk to his press guy, Shane Scanlon.
At that point, Gianforte grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground behind him. Faith, Keith and I watched in disbelief as Gianforte then began punching the man, as he moved on top the reporter and began yelling something to the effect of “I’m sick and tired of this!”
What do you expect? The media lies about everything.
He was probably “body slammed” in much the same way that Michelle Fields was “almost dragged to the ground”.
“Greg then attempted to grab the phone that was pushed in his face,” Scanlon said. “Jacobs grabbed Greg’s wrist, and spun away from Greg, pushing them both to the ground.
Perfect description for that twerp's routine.
Communist “reporters” have been out of control in this country for a long time.
Wouldn’t surprise me if a CNN jackal pack got beat down next.
A Fox News reporter who was in the room and was an eyewitness to the incident backs the reporter’s version of it.
>A Fox News reporter who was in the room and was an eyewitness to the incident backs the reporter’s version of it.
So? I couldn’t care less about the now very leftist fox news says.
https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs
I spent many years on FR teasing out the inner thoughts of biased "reporters".
Now, they just dump it all on Twitter like a pile of reeking vomit.
It's fracking awesome. They don't even appear to know that they're doing it. 😀
If you look at this guy's feed, it's one negative Trump/Republican hitpiece after another.
These "reporters" are psychotic.
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No evidence of intent...No lament!
Might have been actually interesting if he had body-slammed the media twerp and then split the twerp’s scrotum with a vicious kick...
I’m afraid it will. Our guy lost his cool, and we will loose a winnable seat.
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