Reporter Strong Armed By Trump’s Top Aide Speaks Out: He Was ‘Out Of Line’

**HOLD FOR STORY**Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walks with his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, left, after speaking at a news conference, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, in Dubuque, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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The Breitbart News reporter who was “aggressively” pulled almost to the ground by Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski wrote Thursday that Lewandowski was “out of line.”

Michelle Fields recounted her experience Tuesday night at Trump’s golf club in Jupiter, Florida, saying she had previously covered Trump events without incident.

She wrote:

I wasn’t called upon to ask a question during the televised press conference, but afterwards Trump wandered around, stopping at every reporter to take their questions. When he approached me, I asked him about his view on an aspect of affirmative action.

Trump acknowledged the question, but before he could answer I was jolted backwards. Someone had grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me down. I almost fell to the ground, but was able to maintain my balance. Nonetheless, I was shaken.

Fields wrote that Ben Terris, a reporter for The Washington Post, “immediately remarked” it was Lewandowski who had forcibly grabbed her arm.

There was no apology or explanation, she wrote.

“Even if Trump was done taking questions, Lewandowski would be out of line. Campaign managers aren’t supposed to try to forcefully throw reporters to the ground, no matter the circumstance,” she said.

There were no warnings that the candidate was done with questions, Fields wrote.

“No one was pushing him to get away. He seemed to have been happily answering queries from my fellow reporters just a moment before,” she added.

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  1. “Even if Trump was done taking questions, Lewandowski would be out of line. Campaign managers aren’t supposed to try to forcefully throw reporters to the ground, no matter the circumstance,” she said.

    I’ll feel bad for her when Breitbart itself stops acting like a petulant child and takes a stand for anyone not in the right-wing sphere.

  2. Avatar for jalus jalus says:

    Fields was walking next to Trump, on his right, when she pointed her recording device at him and asked if he still disagrees, as he said last December, with late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia’s attacks on affirmative action.

    Before Trump could answer, Lewandowski grabbed Fields from behind, taking hold of her left forearm and “yanking her down toward the ground like a rag doll,” a witness told The Daily Beast.

    Lewandowski’s explanation was that he and Fields had never met before and that he didn’t recognize her as a Breitbart reporter, instead mistaking her for an adversarial member of the mainstream media.

    .
    Think about that.

  3. Ms. Fields was obviously not wearing her “Right Wing Nut Job Propaganda Tools for TRUMP” tiara conspicuously enough.

  4. At least the jerk was honest: “Hey, I didn’t know she was one of us.”

  5. Breitbart? If there is no video, it never happened. Even if there is video, is still may have never happened.

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