Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 06:52 pm
Wondering how Republican front-runner Donald Trump would react to the news that his campaign manager was charged with battery after surveillance video caught him allegedly manhandling a female reporter from the very conservative Breitbart?
Accountability? No thanks!
Donald Trump denied reality this afternoon, tweeting that we should look at the tapes, there is “nothing there!
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Wow, Corey Lewandowski, my campaign manager and a very decent man, was just charged with assaulting a reporter. Look at tapes-nothing there!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2016
The problem is that Lewandowski was charged because police DID look at the tapes and there was something there, and that something was consistent with the “grabbing injury” on Michelle Fields’ arm.
A few minutes later, in a rather sad and desperate attempt to cast aspersions on Fields, Trump tried to muddy the waters with this:
Why aren't people looking at this reporters earliest statement as to what happened, that is before she found out the episode was on tape?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2016
Oh, so his campaign manager DID assault Fields but we shouldn’t care because allegedly she lied? How original. This is also different from Trump’s claim that Lewandowski did “nothing”. But the tape proves otherwise.
At least Trump is wrapping up the woman abuser vote. He can add that to the voters who believe Obama is not a Christian and wasn’t born here.
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