Despite contradicting reports on the Lewendowski/Fields incident, Fields is moving forward with her plans to charge Trump’s campaign manager with simple battery.
Nearly a month of jousting on social media culminated Tuesday in the arrest of a top Donald Trump presidential campaign aide on misdemeanor battery charges following a March 8 incident involving a reporter.
Michelle Fields, then with the online Breitbart News Service, alleges that Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski forcefully grabbed her at a news conference at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter.
Lewandowski — who has denied wrongdoing and who the Trump campaign said will plead not guilty — turned himself in to town police just before 8 a.m. Tuesday, in what Jupiter Police Chief Frank Kitzerow described as “a very straightforward procedure.”
Lewandowski was issued a notice to appear on a misdemeanor battery charge. The New York City resident is expected in Palm Beach County Circuit Court May 4.
Fields filed a report with police within a week of the incident. On Tuesday, town police released surveillance footage of the alleged battery they said corroborated Fields’ claims, prompting them to file the battery charges.
While the video may prove indisputably that contact was made — contrary to Lewandowski’s claims otherwise — that doesn’t mean the charges are a sure thing. Trump’s Secret Service is now coming to Lewandowski’s defense, claiming the contact was warranted.
Jupiter Police released surveillance footage on Tuesday giving the public an eagle-eye view of the incident where the grab at Fields is clear.
But speaking on condition of anonymity, a member of Trump’s Secret Service detail told DailyMail.com on Tuesday that Fields touched Trump twice – and was warned by agents to stop – before Lewandowski pulled her away.
‘She crossed in between agents and our protectee after being told not to,’ said the agent, who was present that night in Jupiter.
Watch the video below and decide for yourself. Was the contact worthy of Field’s resignation and the subsequent charges, or is this just another smear by the media of Trumps campaign?
Source: Palm Beach Post, Daily mail
Libs at it trying to make it bigger than is media does it part
Violent? Where are you people when there’s real violence ? You just discredited yourself.
It was a staged set-up!