WHAT “overreaction”? From the video, it isn’t even clear he ever touched hern
Yes, the little punk grabbed her. Please don’t play the Trump game and deny that he ever touched her or knew her. That crap is getting old. Accept responsibility, apologize, and move on - that is what men of character would do.
There was no need for a CAMPAIGN MANAGER to grab her by the arm and pull her backwards. The SS was there precisely for security. ITS THEIR FREAKIN’ JOB to react if there was any threat, perceived or real, or if she was too close for comfort.
Its laughable the way people are acting like this campaign manager hothead is some Rambo-ski coming to save the day from this petite reporter simply asking questions.
Please do not interpret my posts as support for Fields. Both sides unnecessarily escalated this at best, incident.
From the video below, there is what looks like an SS agent directly behind her. Lewandowski goes out of his way to grab her and pull her back. Why? Was she a threat? Did he not like her question? Does he not like her? If she was a threat, the SS agent was in a far better position to see it, and neutralize the threat. It seems odd that she was the only reporter singled out for the Lewandowski treatment. Had the SS agent done the same thing, I wouldn’t be commenting because THAT IS THEIR JOB.
At the 1 second mark it appears Trump is looking at her and listening to her question. Trump looks down and here comes Lewandowski to save the day. My assumption is that he didn’t like the question about affirmative action so he separated her before Trump could answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGz5DPqU-p0
>> Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, told the Erik Wemple Blog: “As we said from the beginning, Corey Lewandowski was not involved. We are vindicated and we look forward to receiving an apology from your publication and your reporter, Ben Terris.” <<
>>> Yet the video CLEARLY shows, and the eyewitnesses confirmed, that Lewandowski WAS involved. Why was the campaign lying? Take responsibility, apologize and move on. But they weren’t finished. They needed to intimidate and destroy Fields.
The incident itself was nothing more than an unfortunate altercation. If the little punk does this often however, maybe he might need anger management, or needs to pick another, less “dangerous” line of work, where there is no need to manhandle women.
What is really revealing is the attitude on this thread, and within the Trump campaign, and especially with Trump himself, that the first thing is to lie, then attack the character of the accuser, and then unleash your henchman to intimidate her. That’s very Clintonesque.