According to eyewitnesses, Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski nearly knocked Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields to the ground for having the gall to ask Trump a question. Following the incident, which the Trump campaign denies ever happened, many other reporters came to Fields’s defense. In response, Lewandowski has tried to smear Fields’s reputation.
Michelle Fields is an attention seeker who once claimed Allen West groped her but later went silent. https://t.co/J86Ej42eYx
— Corey Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) March 10, 2016
Fields, for her part, has some pretty strong evidence:
I guess these just magically appeared on me @CLewandowski_ @realDonaldTrump. So weird. pic.twitter.com/oD8c4D7tw3
— Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) March 10, 2016
The pathetic part is that her own employer, a big Trump supporter, could only muster a tepid, equivocating statement. Breitbart is only calling for an apology, instead of declaring all-out war. And Fields’s Breitbart colleague Patrick Howley went further still, casting doubt on Fields’s story. (Howley, at least, has been suspended.)