{"id":73213,"date":"2017-05-25T17:48:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T21:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73213"},"modified":"2017-05-25T18:17:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T22:17:04","slug":"montana-gop-candidate-greg-gianforte-harassed-by-second-aggressive-liberal-reporter-from-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73213","title":{"rendered":"Montana GOP Candidate Greg Gianforte Harassed by Second Aggressive Liberal Reporter from The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The question needs to be asked:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Is the liberal media deliberately sending in their aggressive reporters to sabotage Republican candidates?
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Montana Assault Witness Changes Story, Says No Neck Grab<\/h1>\n

Reporter says firsthand account misstated key aspect of Gianforte incident<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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by <\/span>Edmund Kozak
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A reporter who was a firsthand witness to an\u00a0incident late Wednesday involving Montana GOP candidate Greg Gianforte and a reporter for the Guardian now admits she may have\u00a0misstated\u00a0some details of her initial story.<\/p>\n

Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs claimed Gianforte, locked in a hotly contested special election for Congress, body-slammed him and broke his glasses at a campaign event Wednesday. Local authorities have brought misdemeanor assault charges against Gianforte.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, and I\u2019m the one who said that\u00a0\u2026\u00a0I saw both his hands go up\u00a0\u2026\u00a0I guess it could\u2019ve been on his clothes, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is, so far, no direct video of the incident; only audio has been produced publicly. Among the small handful of eyewitnesses was Fox News reporter Alicia Acuna.<\/p>\n

Acuna wrote a report<\/a> published on Fox News that detailed what happened as Jacobs aggressively questioned Gianforte.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that point, Gianforte grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground behind him,\u201d she wrote, \u201cFaith, Keith and I watched in disbelief as Gianforte then began punching the reporter. As Gianforte moved on top of Jacobs, he began yelling something to the effect of, \u2018I\u2019m sick and tired of this!’\u201d<\/p>\n

Acuna repeated her initial version of events during an appearance on Fox News Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cGianforte grabbed [Jacobs] by the neck, slid him to the side, and body-slammed him, and then got on top of him and started punching,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Details from Acuna’s report quickly went viral online, but she said\u00a0Thursday during an interview on “The Laura Ingraham Show” that she misstated the\u00a0neck grab.<\/p>\n

“One of you guys said last night that he put his hands around his neck,” Ingraham said. “Which, as somebody who’s done a lot of taekwondo and self-defense, to me that seemed, that might not be exactly right.”<\/p>\n

“You know, and I’m the one who said that,”\u00a0Acuna replied, “I saw both his hands go up, not around his neck in a strangling type of way, but more just on each side of his neck, just grabbed him and I guess it could’ve been on his clothes, I don’t know.”<\/p>\n

Ingraham asked\u00a0Acuna\u00a0if that meant she was changing her story.<\/p>\n

“Again, just to clarify, he didn’t grab him by the neck with both hands in the way that was initially described, that’s not quite accurate,” Ingraham asked at the end of the interview.<\/p>\n

“\u200bNo, so it wasn’t like he grabbed him around the neck, he had one hand on each side of his neck,” Acuna\u00a0confirmed.<\/p>\n

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Gianforte’s\u00a0campaign released a statement shortly after the incident Wednesday that offered a different take on the scuffle than that put forward by Acuna.<\/p>\n

“Tonight, as Greg was giving a separate interview in a private office, the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs entered the office without permission, aggressively shoved a recorder in Greg’s face, and began asking badgering questions,” the statement read. “Jacobs was asked to leave.”<\/p>\n

“Greg then attempted to grab the phone that was pushed in his face,” the Gianforte statement continues, “Jacobs grabbed Greg’s wrist, and spun away from Greg, pushing them both to the ground.”<\/p>\n

Montana has early voting in federal elections and reported estimates suggest as much as 70 percent of total expected votes had\u00a0already been cast before the incident. Day-off votes are being cast Thursday.<\/p>\n

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