Posted on 03/14/2016 6:42:41 AM PDT by servo1969
A reporter and editor for the conservative news website Breitbart resigned their positions late Sunday over the site's response to an alleged assault on the reporter by Donald Trump's campaign manager.
Reporter Michelle Fields and editor Ben Shapiro confirmed their resignations in statements to Buzzfeed News and on social media.
I can't stand with an organization that won't stand by me: https://t.co/pohxCKScpf -- Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) March 14, 2016
Tonight, I resigned from Breitbart News due to their treatment of @MichelleFields. My full statement: https://t.co/kEFev1L0Af -- Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 14, 2016
Their departures from the site stem from the alleged actions of Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski at a rally Wednesday night. Fields claimed that she was grabbed by the arm and pulled down. Washington Post reporter Ben Terris identified Lewandowski as the assailant. Fields did not see who grabbed her arm herself.
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WRONG. She's not after the money.
Her assignment was to force Trump to get rid of Lewandowski.
I get why she resigned...she made the whole thing up and got out before she could be fired. But Shapiro resigned because of the way she was treated at BB? How does he think liars should be treated at BB? After the video came out did he think BB should have kept up the lie by defending her? It doesn’t make sense to me - except that Fox offered him more money and this is his way to leave BB.
Going by your ‘standard’ of ‘assault’, everyone that rides the subway is assaulted.
She claims she was taken to the ground. Did you see that in the video ?
Wow.. Your a huge LIAR. Show us this clip of her falling to the ground please.. LIAR.
It was not even Corey that gently touched her, it was SS and she was completely unaffected.
I’ve heard Shapiro. He is a fanatic bordering on insane.
Oh, isn't this the guy that later tweeted he didn't see anything, wasn't even there ?
physical bruises
That was several days old. Bruises don't appear instantly. Unless you are a bleeder.
Because it didn’t happen.
It looks like Corey to me. You need to watch the angle shot from his behind. It is pretty apparent that she moves backward as Corey passes by but it could have been on her own volition. It looks like she is pulled to me.
You need to watch this video if you think it wasn’t Corey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NoMPxomjiw
And the way he was moving, if he grabbed her she would have been pulled forward. She has ZERO reaction when CL passes her.
You obviously haven’t seen all angles our are willfully blind with an agenda.
Breitbart thinks she Lying for God’s sake! And you are still trying to push this lie?
The Magic of Donald Trump by Ben Shapiro
In the last several weeks, that ideal Republican candidate has materialized.
His name is Donald Trump. His slogan is ready-made: “You’re Fired.” He does not give a damn what the media thinks of him — he steamrolled Meredith Vieira during his NBC interview with her last week. He can self-fund to the tune of $1 billion.
And what’s more, he can win.
http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2011/04/13/the_magic_of_donald_trump/page/full
I watched the video yesterday. I appears that in a very crowded room Corey Lewandowski had to squeeze past Michelle Fields and may have brushed agains’t her trying to get past. She shifted back a little which I saw as a natural reaction in a crowded space when someone is trying to get by you. Nothing more.
Look at his right arm. It is making a movement that is consistent with pulling her out of the way. Her movement is consistent with being pulled away but she could have moved on her own.
I posted a thread on this video. I think he moved her to get her out of the way . I think she exaggerated it.
assault is legally defined as the "unwanted touching" no agreement there. Where you can make an argument, is were her actions contributing to having her removed from a space that she was not welcomed.
Megyn has already Tweeted that they will both be on her show tonight. Megyn doubles-down on stupid.
Ben used to be on a radio show in the Seattle area. I liked listening to him. I thought he was one of the most articulate and intelligent up and coming conservatives.
Unfortunately, he is wrong on this issue. The ONLY person in this room full of reporters and cameras who claims to have seen Corey Lewandowski grab the arm of Michelle Fields is her WaPo friend Ben Terris. And Lewandowski was standing next to a secret service guy who looks somewhat like him. So it is questionable that it in fact was Lewandowski, and not the agent, who made contact with Fields.
Further, it is clear that the “incident” was minor, lasting no more than a moment, involving security in a room full of cameras and reporters grabbing and pulling on the arm of a reporter charging up to the candidate. Security was simply trying to clear his path while he was trying to leave the room. No one, other than Fields and Terris, in this room full of people, was aware during the “incident” that anything had happened. Descriptions of this “incident” as involving an attempt to knock the reporter down are simply not true, and contradicted by her own reporting immediately after the incident.
There are reasonable reasons for criticizing Trump. This is not one of them.
There is ZERO proof of your account. You “think” what you want because you have an agenda like the establishment. Please show me video showing what you “think” happened. Here’s one that totally debunks the lies.
There is going to be plenty of unwanted touching in a press scrum as people are scrambling.
I would not employ this woman nor would I want to work with her. Who knows who she would accuse next. reporters are expected to be aggressive and jostle to try to get the story but don’t cry foul when you are moved out of the way.
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