In his first interview Thursday night since Florida battery charges were dropped, Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told Fox News host Sean Hannity the whole matter has been “a huge distraction” to the campaign.
Hannity also refused to press Lewandowski about his repeated claims that he never touched former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields after a March 8 press conference in Jupiter, Florida. According to findings from the state attorney’s office, Lewandowski “reached forward and grabbed Ms. Fields’ arm” to pull her away from the candidate.
Hannity said the press emphasizing Lewandowski’s earlier remarks, coupled with surveillance video showing he “might have touched her” made him think, “Is this where we’ve gotten to in this campaign?”
“It’s not just the campaign, it’s this whole notion of political correctness,” Lewandowski replied.
The campaign manager went on to say he’s still never spoken to Fields about the incident, which he learned about on Twitter, and would have preferred to resolve the issue privately.
Asked about Fields bringing a possible defamation case against him, Lewandowski said “people can do whatever they want.”
Lewandowski also thanked Trump for his loyalty under fire after Hannity asked, “Are you a little annoyed, angry, upset, that they brought it up in the first place?”
“My sum total of that relationship with her was about three seconds long,” he said. “It wasn’t very memorable…[but it’s] taken up a big piece of my life.”
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Whole relationship only “three seconds long” yet he told about ten lies regarding it. No surprise how he and Trump found each other. Perfect match.
Did Sean ask if suffering Catholic Corey could see Jesus’ house from up on his wooden perch?
BTW, why the pink lapel triangle?
NAL so maybe an L can tell me if this isn’t a slam-dunk defamation case. They’ve called her a liar, they’ve called her delusional, they’ve called her a potential carrier of teensy little bombs, they’ve said she just wants attention, she’s made up stuff before, on and on. And they won’t stop defaming her, it seems. So she only has one remedy, right?
“It’s not just the campaign, it’s this whole notion of political correctness,” Lewandowski replied.
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Manhandling a female reporter doing her job is now political correctness? Waaa?
Talk about deflection…
And then there is the video of that incident. So not only should Corey be in trouble for what he did he is a liar. For me I’m not sure which is worse. I’m an older guy brought up to be truthful and to never ever miss handle a woman. I hold both to be very important.
Oh, poor baby! You rough up a gal reporter, leave bruises and your butt-hurt? Awwh, our heart bleed for you…NOT!
Whattajagoffnutjob!