Posted on 03/11/2016 7:45:59 AM PST by springwater13
New video of Donald Trump’s press conference Tuesday evening shows that the Washington Post’s 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.
As Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson said Thursday on the Fox Business Network, “someone probably did grab her,” i.e. Fields, though Pierson claimed it could not have been Lewandowski.
Audio of the incident, published on Politico, shows Fields asking Terris if the individual who pulled her left arm was, in fact, “Corey.” Terris says it was — an assertion he later repeated in print: “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.”
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, Terris’s colleague, released by ABC News World News Tonight, and taken seconds before the altercation took place, shows two men with short-cropped hair.
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Michelle Fields: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Before getting too invested in this smear, Team Cruz might want to check the background of the accuser.
Seems she has a history of crying wolf.
If the supposed grabber was not who Breitbart weirdos said it was, then “it” never happened.
Sounds like it was the Secret Service.
I’d better not vote for him then.
Poor Glenn Beck/TedState/other usual Trump-hating suspects. Another nothing-burger against Trump.
NEWSFLASH: Presidential candidates have security details that WILL put their hands on you to move you out of the way and keep the candidate safe. Film at 11.
People on what I think is the Bill Bennett show (like big liberal Mary Katherine Hamm) were pushing the lie that Trump’s man did this.
Yep. She got way to close to Trump and SS moved her out of the way. This is worrying. We don’t need another Squeaky Fromme incident.
Corey should grow his hair out.
BOLO. Salem media is moving their hysterical anti-Trumpers on to Bill Bennett’s Show. He is “retiring”. Hostile takeover, IMO.
Well, I hope the media reveals this truth with the same vigor and intensity as it push the lie.
Mary Katherine Hamm a big lib?
LMAOROTF. People have gone crazy.
What was the “Squeaky” moment?
Read the whole Breitbart article. They have basically proven the accusation against Lewandowski was false.
What they HAVE NOT done is formally admit they were completely wrong and apologize.
Breitbart owes Lewandowski a formal apology.
Michelle Fields owes Lewandowski a formal apology.
Crickets.
She tried to kill Gerald Ford.
Another girl reporter wearing tight clothes trying to get national attention.
Looks like the NYPD were helping her UP.
This never should have been reported.
Ever.
She is obviously out of her league.
It was probably the guy right behind Trump.
“Before getting too invested in this smear, Team Cruz might want to check the background of the accuser.”
Huh? What does Cruz have to do with this?
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