Ex-Breitbart Reporter Michelle Fields To Cover Trump For Huffington Post

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Reporter Michelle Fields, who left Breitbart News after accusing a top aide to Donald Trump of manhandling her, will cover the Trump campaign for the Huffington Post, CNNMoney reported on Sunday.

“After the tumultuous events of the last few months, I am ready to get back to writing and reporting on what is without question the most bizarrely fascinating presidential race of my lifetime (and, perhaps, any lifetime),” Fields said in a Sunday statement, according to CNN.

Fields will start at the Huffington Post on Monday, CNN reported. The publication’s bureau chief, Ryan Grim, called Fields “one of the most widely read chroniclers of the conservative movement.”

Fields in March alleged that Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, grabbed her arm when she tried to ask the candidate a question at a press conference, nearly pulling her to the ground. A video later released by local police appears to show Lewandowski grabbing Fields’ arm.

Fields then resigned from Breitbart News saying that the news site had not “stood by me during the events of the past week.” Following Fields’ allegations, Brietbart had published a story casting doubt on her claims.

Lewandowski was charged with misdemeanor battery, but the Florida state attorney decided against pursuing the charges against the Trump aide.

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  1. Even though this is a good opportunity to go full snark, I’m going to be a big boy and wish both Ms. Fields and Ryan Grim (of The Huffington Post) good fortunes here. Though HuffPo is most definitely slanted, they are rarely ever propaganda-style slanted … and never for Leviathans. Hopefully this will be a good fresh start for Ms. Fields to produce some good, solid work.

  2. Avatar for pine pine says:

    Good for you Ms Fields.You have something the Teflon one will never have it’s called integrity.Show them you can’t be bullied or taken for granted.Would love to see the look on Teflons face when he sees you in the press pool.

  3. And so much for Huffington Post. Their anti-Trump jihad has brought them to this. Listen to this dimwit. The most bizarre election “of her lifetime.” This empty-headed right-wing bobblehead would have been in elementary school during Bush vs. Gore. This won’t last.

  4. Michelle Fields has no idea what integrity is. Examples:

    Fox Guest: Dems “Reduced The American Woman To A Sexual Being Whose Sole Concern Is Birth Control,” “Cheap Abortions”

    Fox Continues To Push False Claims To Argue In Favor Of Defunding Planned Parenthood


    MICHELLE FIELDS: Absolutely. And, you know, it’s a fiscal issue. You’re being fiscally responsible. Planned Parenthood can be self-sufficient. It does not need taxpayer dollars. Plus, there are plenty of clinics, plenty of other places where people can get better services, better quality of service without taxpayer dollars. So this should be an issue everyone should be talking about.

  5. A rank careerist. Brietbart?

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