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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Maybe. Pavlich is no dummy, rabid Trump hater or maybe believes that taking that side would endear her to like minded “news” outlets. Regardless of reason, it reveals a very immature trait. Too bad.
Cruz still has nothing to do with it.
Our own FR Kristinn’s name was mentioned!!!
Excellent find!
Yes she is!!!!!!
She really is!
Breitbart needs to show Ms. Fields the door right now if they are to retain whatever journalistic credibility they might have left.
On the other hand, it would appear that Mr. Lewandowski could soon own Ms. Fields if he plays his cards right.
Here is a series of tweets where the WAPO photographer initially stated that he wasn’t at the event, you know, the one he took pictures of.
Trump is right. The media is dishonest.
https://twitter.com/Brad_D80/status/708289061526573057
Did The Washington Post Lie About The Michelle Fields Incident?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B6K7iiV_zk
“I hope she rues the day for pressing this issue.”
She is actually now saying she is filing a criminal complaint against Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Landowski.
I hope the guy that did it is a SS agent and not just personal security.
Ok so it seems security officer not the guy she accused
, yanked her away... but she accusing the person yanked away which apparently is this unknown security officer with some kind of sexual assault ?
because there’s a big difference between a security officer getting rough and grabbing you and pull you away vs miss identifying the campaign manager and saying he sexually assaulted you ....that’s light-years different
It’s about attention.
Corey Lewandowski?
I’ve always enjoyed her work on the harpsichord.
Washington Post lied? I’m shocked (that they got caught).
ON twitter, this reporter Fields says she has filed a criminal complaint against Landowski
This could have just blown over but Fields thought she had a gotcha moment and filed charges.
A veritable crap storm is headed her way over this.
Fields deserves that crap storm. I hope the SS bans here from future Trump events.
and to listen to limbaugh regurgitate as though fields (who has a history of such... dramatizations...) account was troublesome news for trump... :rolleyes:
(odd seeing as this also fits the narrative the current administration and ‘dump trump’ camps are both attempting to further - you’d think ol’ rushie could smell something fishy by now, unless the ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ now applies?...)
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