{"id":34615,"date":"2016-03-29T18:19:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T22:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=34615"},"modified":"2016-03-29T18:19:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T22:19:57","slug":"trump-threatens-to-press-charges-against-reporter-in-campaign-manager-flap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=34615","title":{"rendered":"Trump Threatens to Press Charges Against Reporter in Campaign Manager Flap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34616\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/95dba201-91d6-41f4-bfca-a717145fd7b7.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34616\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34616\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34616\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/95dba201-91d6-41f4-bfca-a717145fd7b7.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump (AP)\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/95dba201-91d6-41f4-bfca-a717145fd7b7.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/95dba201-91d6-41f4-bfca-a717145fd7b7-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Trump (AP)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Todd Beamon<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to press charges against a former Breitbart News reporter after his campaign manager was charged with &#8220;intentionally&#8221; touching her at a rally earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the Republican presidential front-runner said on Twitter regarding the reporter, Michelle Fields:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Victory press conference was over. <br \/>Why is she allowed to grab me and shout questions? Can I press charges? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qbW2RjkINX\">pic.twitter.com\/qbW2RjkINX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/714891184867508224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fields, 28, accused Trump&#8217;s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, 42, with grabbing her arm during a news conference on March 8 in Jupiter, Fla., causing bruises.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski was charged with simple battery for &#8220;intentionally&#8221; touching Fields, the Jupiter Police Department said Tuesday. He turned himself into police and was given a May 4 court date on the misdemeanor charge.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities released video appearing to show Lewandowski reaching toward Fields and holding her back as Trump passed by after the news conference at the Trump National Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>He had won primaries in Michigan and Mississippi that night.<\/p>\n<p>Trump posted another tweet quoting Fields&#8217; initial statement to police:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why is this reporter touching me as I leave news conference? What is in her hand?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HQB8dl0fhn\">pic.twitter.com\/HQB8dl0fhn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/714898756420939780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Special: Save Time and Effort Running Your Business<br \/>\nThe developer also defended Lewandowski, saying that he was a &#8220;very decent man&#8221; and that the video showed &#8220;nothing there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump later told reporters in Wisconsin that Fields changed her story once the police video became known.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to see it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You take a look at her initial statement. It sounded like she got thrown out of a building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The businessman said that he could not tell whether Fields received bruises in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if there were bruises from that,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Who said if there were bruises from that? How do you know bruises weren&#8217;t there?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re going to get squeezed, wouldn&#8217;t you would have yelled out a scream if she had bruises on her arm? Take a look at her facial expression. Facial expression doesn&#8217;t even change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, you say bruises. How did they get there? Who put them there? I don&#8217;t know he put them there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sticking up for a person,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to let a person&#8217;s life be destroyed over somebody we have on tape.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/trump-michelle-fields-corey-lewandowski-charges\/2016\/03\/29\/id\/721360\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/trump-michelle-fields-corey-lewandowski-charges\/2016\/03\/29\/id\/721360\/#ixzz44KheaXA0 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Todd Beamon Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to press charges against a former Breitbart News reporter after his campaign manager was charged with &#8220;intentionally&#8221; touching her at a rally earlier this month. Here&#8217;s what the Republican presidential front-runner said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=34615\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}