Toughen up! The video of Donald Trump's campaign manager 'assaulting' a female reporter is ridiculous. A man would have been condemned as a laughing s

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By PIERS MORGAN
PUBLISHED: 21:46, 29 March 2016 | UPDATED: 00:50, 30 March 2016


A few years ago, I was punched in the head three times at the British Press Awards in London.
My assailant was a man named Jeremy Clarkson, then presenter of global TV car show Top Gear.
He was severely intoxicated and very, very angry at a story about his personal life which had appeared in the newspaper I ran at the time.
The third flailing blow crashed into my temple, gouging a small hole from which blood flowed profusely.
At this point, I considered my options.
a) Hit him back.
b) Go home.
c) Call the police to press charges, then phone my lawyer to sue Clarkson.
If I’d gone for option c) then I suspect he’d have been convicted of assault and I’d have ended up with a truck load of cash too.
There were, after all, about 1000 witnesses, all of whom were journalists (which is why I didn’t hit him back..).
But I concluded that on balance, I probably deserved my pummelling and so instead, I stumbled outside and caught a taxi home.
(Clarkson, ironically, was fired from Top Gear last year for punching one of his producers in the head after he failed to provide him with hot food)

 

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My point in retelling this anecdote is that journalism’s a rough old game, and the people – male and female - who choose it for a profession tend to be fairly rough too.
‘News,’ as the great press baron Lord Northcliffe once observed, ‘is something someone somewhere doesn’t want printed.’
Gathering news is thus a precarious pursuit which often requires reporters to work in very difficult, dangerous conditions.
This morning I woke in Los Angeles to breaking news that Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski had been arrested and charged with ‘battery’ over an incident with a female reporter, Michelle Fields.
His alleged crime was to assault Ms Fields as she attempted to interview Trump when he walked away from a news conference in Florida.
Helpfully, the police issued new video of the ‘clash’, illustrating very clearly exactly what happened.
The footage lasts just a few seconds and shows Ms Fields displaying commendable bravura as she approaches Trump to fire questions at him.

 

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Crucially, DailyMail.com has now established from a member of Trump’s Secret Service detail that in the process, she touched Trump twice and was warned by agents to stop.


Lewandowski, walking a few steps behind his boss, saw this happening (he may well have heard the warnings too) and raced forward to prevent her asking more questions and put himself between Trump and the reporter.

At this point, let’s forget the gender of the journalist.
In this glorious age of equality, it shouldn’t matter – right?
Battery is battery – regardless of the sex of the victim.
Lewandowski can be seen putting his arm up to block the journalist. In doing so, he also appears to grab her arm for less than a second as he moves on.



This is all rather different from what Ms Fields herself claimed had happened when she wrote about it for her then employer, Breitbart.com: ‘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. Nevertheless I was shaken. Campaign managers aren’t supposed to try to forcefully throw reporters to the ground.’
Oh puh-lease.


I’ve watched the video multiple times and cannot conceive any sensible interpretation that he is committing any kind of deliberate assault.

 

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Part of Lewandowski’s job is to protect Trump from nosey journalists, and that’s exactly what he’s doing.
Fields, let me also be very clear, was also doing her job and if I were her editor, I’d congratulate her on getting so close to her prey, especially as repeatedly touching a presidential front-runner in public when he’s surrounded by Secret Service agents is a very risky thing to do.
But my fulsome praise would very rapidly be replaced by utter incredulity if she then informed me she was going to press charges against Lewandowski for battery.
Particularly given that battery, according to the law, means ‘intentionally touching someone without that person’s will’ – the very same thing we now know Fields did to Trump.
This doesn’t mean I take violence against women lightly. But there has to be some kind of harmful intent surely?
Lewandowski wasn’t trying to hurt Michelle Fields, he was trying to stop her getting to Donald Trump. If one of the Secret Service agents had done it, as they had every right to do given her behaviour, they’d have been applauded for doing their job.
Like every journalist I know, I’ve spent much of my career being pushed, shoved, elbowed and barged in crowded places when trying to get near famous people.
It goes with the territory.
Just as for that special breed of journalists who work in war zones, daily life can include dodging bullets, bombs and grenades.
Some of the toughest journalists in America are women.
Would Barbara Walters, Katie Couric or Diane Sawyer have pressed charges if they’d been in Ms Fields’ position?
Of course they wouldn’t.
They’d have all brushed off Lewandowski’s obstruction and chased back after Trump to try and fire more questions at him.
That’s what real reporters do. They don’t take no for an answer.

 

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Ms Fields seems hell bent on having her moment of fame, but if you dish it out you have to take it. A male reporterer would have been mercilessly ridiculed had he complained as she did

It’s hard therefore not to escape the sad conclusion that Ms Fields is hell-bent on having her 15 seconds of fame by turning a very innocuous incident into a national scandal to deliberately embarrass and damage a presidential candidate.
After I tweeted about this today, and had the audacity to suggest Ms Fields was being a big wuss, I was instantly bombarded with vicious abuse – notably from other high profile online journalists.
Olivia Nuzzi, a noisy feminist from the Daily Beast led the way with this simple entreaty: ‘Please go f**k yourself.’
Ben Shapiro, a whiny little brat who quit Breitbart over the way they supposedly failed to defend his colleague, was racist: ‘Go screw yourself you prissy sexist Brit.’
Whilst Simon Maloy, an aesthetically displeasing toad from Salon.com, preferred body-shaming me by saying I was a ‘dough-looking, can’t-tell-where-the-neck-stops-and-chin-starts fop.’
Whatever.
Like I said, journalism’s a rough old game. You dish it out, you have to take it.
But this debate boils down to this: if a male reporter cried ‘battery’ after such a trivial incident, he’d be an absolute laughing stock.
Why should a female reporter be taken any more seriously?
By making such a grotesque mountain of such a tiny molehill, Michelle Fields has embarrassed herself and let down her profession.
Toughen up, young lady – or choose a different job.

 

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LIAR, LIAR: Hoax Artist Michelle Fields Falsely Accused Me Of A Crime Once Too

MARCH 30, 2016 BY CHARLES C. JOHNSON

http://gotnews.com/michelle-fields-falsely-accused-crime/

 

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Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields has big hair and big and employs both as tools in her journalist tool box. She’s composed like a beauty pageant runner up. The one who pounds apple-tinis while bitching about Miss Costa Rica really being from Lauderdale. Fields claims that Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski grabbed her forcefully as he tried to prevent her from asking Trump a question on the campaign trail. She posted photos of her arm to social media revealing the level of bruising you receive during a standard shopping trip to Trader Joe’s on a busy Sunday. Fields demanded an apology from Lewandowski and Trump. They taunted her and called her a nut job. Classic Trump.



Fields leapt into action, donning a series of revealing tops and making the talk show rounds showing off a video tape that CNN immediately labeled ‘damning’ showing Lewandowski reached for her arm as she quickly moved into Trump space. Presumably he’s done the same or similar to a thousand reporters in the past, none of whom filed assault charges in Florida against him. You’d like to imagine this was some Cruz or Clinton conspiracy to damage Trump, but almost certainly it was just an ambitious chick who covers the news once again inserting herself into the news. Geraldo Rivera made millions.



Lewandowski faces the potential of a not guilty verdict on misdemeanor battery charges, while Fields faces a future of hoping her name lingers on Google trending long enough to get a Dancing With the Stars phone call. Those would look spectacular in sequins. Or my mouth. That slipped. Why are you dialing 9-1-1?

 

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LIAR, LIAR: Hoax Artist Michelle Fields Falsely Accused Me Of A Crime Once Too

MARCH 30, 2016 BY CHARLES C. JOHNSON

http://gotnews.com/michelle-fields-falsely-accused-crime/

I'm sure you meant to say you were posting an article by Charles Johnson, a psychopath and a PROVEN LIAR LIAR, because, you're not brainwashed or anything. This idiot was thrown of twitter for making threats. Yep, thrown off twitter. He begs for donations to help him get re-instated to twitter. His lie about Ms Fields is clear and obvious. The idiot claimed: Is Michelle Fields a pathological liar? I don’t know but Fields certainly has a history of lying. She claims that she was a Fox News contributor but there’s no record she ever was.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/09/fox-news-adds-michelle-fields-as-contributor-195513

 

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[h=1]Revealed: Clinton backer who called Trump 'divisive and inflammatory' is in charge of Trump aide prosecution in Florida[/h]

• State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg's office is handling the battery case of Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski
• Aronberg's office is not commenting on the matter, but he was named part of Hillary Clinton's 'Florida Leadership Team' in November
• Aronberg also went to law school with Donald Trump's Republican rival, Sen. Ted Cruz - though isn't supporting the GOP candidate

The Florida-based prosecutor whose office will handle the battery case of Donald Trump's campaign manager is a Hillary Clinton supporter who once characterized the Republican frontrunner's rhetoric as 'divisive and inflammatory.'
Dave Aronberg, the 44-year-old State Attorney for Palm Beach County, was a former Democratic state senator and in November was named as part of Clinton's 'Florida Leadership Team.'
These political connections have caused Trump supporters to take to Twitter worrying that Corey Lewandowski, Trump's campaign manager who yesterday was charged with simple battery over an altercation with ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, wouldn't get a fair shake.
A representative for Aronberg's spokesman Mike Edmondson said the office would not be commenting on political matters.

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Dave Aronberg, the West Palm Beach State Attorney, whose office is handling Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski case, is a Hillary Clinton supporter

 

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kristipistol, Stuart, United States, 3 hours ago
There is a conflict here. He should be off the case. Actually, I watched the video, there is no case.




vector direct, Nowhere, United States, 3 hours ago
this explains why any charges were brought at all, it seemed unimaginable there would have been any charges, but it makes sense now.




Archi59, Newcastle, 3 hours ago
What a surprise that this trumped up charge is brought by a Clinton Cling-on. [No apology for the pun].



TrumpTrain2016, Texas, United States, 2 hours ago
More dirty tricks from the Clinton crime family.

 

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Fucken nice looking loon she is

 

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“Who said they were bruises from that? How do you know those bruises weren’t there before?” Trump said.
He also questioned why she didn’t react more strongly if she was being hurt.
“To me, you know if you’re going to get squeezed, wouldn’t you think that she would have yelled out a scream or something?” he said. “Take a look at her facial expression, her facial expression doesn’t even change.”




Note

In the probable cause Affidavit


Fields turned round in reaction to her arm being pulled, then showed Ben Terris, who saw bruises.

That is incredible for bruising to be so instant.

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Corey Lewandowski was charged this morning with misdemeanor battery after allegedly grabbing a reporter at a news conference in Jupiter, Florida, with enough force to leave bruising

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Michelle Fields and Ben Terris' account of the incident, along with the security footage, gave Jupiter police 'probably cause' to charge Donald Trump's campaign manager with simple battery



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Violence around Trump is like cheating around New England Patriots.....it follows them everywhere but it's all untrue.

 

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Violence around Trump is like cheating around New England Patriots.....it follows them everywhere but it's all untrue.

well played. Well played.

 

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well played. Well played.

Ha! Make America Cheaters Again

 

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Ha! Make America Cheaters Again

Ha! Make America Liars Again

 

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no charges filed