Top Trump Aide: Reporter Who Says I Grabbed Her Is ‘Attention Seeker’

**HOLD FOR STORY**Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, center, looks on as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a news conference, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, in Dubuque, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s campaign manager said Thursday that the Breitbart reporter who alleged that he forcibly grabbed her by the arm was an “attention seeker.”

Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski tweeted two reports alleging Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields was assaulted and suggested she was seeking attention from both incidents. One 2015 story alleged that a colleague of Fields’ once grabbed her breast, while a second story from 2011 quoted Fields saying police hit her with a baton during the Occupy Wall Street protests:

Lewandowski’s tweets appeared to be his first direct response to Field’s allegation that someone at a Trump press conference, who another reporter identified to her as Lewandowski, grabbed her arm and nearly yanked her to the ground.

The Trump campaign on Thursday denied any wrongdoing by Lewandowski.

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  1. Of course, in Trump’s universe every woman who gets a beating did it to garner attention.

  2. “Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s campaign manager said Thursday that the Breitbart reporter who alleged that he forcibly grabbed her by the arm was an “attention seeker.””

    Trump-Speak: she was an “attention seeking whore.” Nothing to see here.

  3. Avatar for tena tena says:

    That picture makes this Lewandowski guy look like Eichmann.

    not kidding

  4. Damn. We’ve all heard this shit before. The same tenor, same phrasing…same old crap. The man is full of shit. He did it…he grabbed her and he’s too cowardly to admit it. He’s a fucking coward…that’s the issue .

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