TOTALLY GEEKED!

Empyreal · Senior Member

Trumps campaign manager

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

I understand Empy. You put your trust in him because he claimed to be the honest one. The one that didn't play dirty. And now you're disappointed that it has turned out to be false.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Empyreal wrote:
Yes, a couple of you get it.

It's how it is being handled!

He didn't say "Yes, I grabbed her arm in an effort to remove her from Mr. Trump" Or "I was doing my job"

He simply denied everything altogether. It is shady as chit to be such a bold face liar. I hate that quality in a person.

Especially for a campaign that never worries about being PC. Why didn't they just go with "Damn straight, she was too close and I removed her ass"

I don't care what they had said, just as long as they aren't telling you something there is no way to believe.

Look everybody! The sky is orange! Because you love me, I can say that and you're all dumb enough to go with it!

I refuse to be treated as a dumb animal. You will not openly deceive me and make me look like a clown if I stay on your bandwagon.

I get it. But I also think that it may not have registered with him, especially if he didn't grab her hard. I mean, that video doesn't look like she almost fell backwards as she claimed. And Trump was going to believe his campaign manager. You really think when he told Trump "no way" that Trump said, "let's go find a video of it" and spent time reviewing it?

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

But Trump COULD have said, "Look, I'll support you. I'm behind you. But if this comes out that you did something we will have to deal with it." And by dealing with it I don't necessarily mean firing. He could have said he would come out and denounce that behavior. I don't blame Trump for wanting to support him. Well, until it was shown that he DID grab her so hard he left bruises.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
But Trump COULD have said, "Look, I'll support you. I'm behind you. But if this comes out that you did something we will have to deal with it." And by dealing with it I don't necessarily mean firing. He could have said he would come out and denounce that behavior. I don't blame Trump for wanting to support him. Well, until it was shown that he DID grab her so hard he left bruises.

You have no idea what he said to him behind closed doors. And that video does not prove he left bruises. She said he yanked her back so hard she almost fell and that's not what that video shows. So, there seems to be more than one side not being completely honest.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

BTW - the threshhold for this charge is very low - "intentional touching without consent." So I find her pressing charges to be a bit hypocritical.

Empyreal · Senior Member

Lawyerlady wrote:
Empyreal wrote:
Yes, a couple of you get it.

It's how it is being handled!

He didn't say "Yes, I grabbed her arm in an effort to remove her from Mr. Trump" Or "I was doing my job"

He simply denied everything altogether. It is shady as chit to be such a bold face liar. I hate that quality in a person.

Especially for a campaign that never worries about being PC. Why didn't they just go with "Damn straight, she was too close and I removed her ass"

I don't care what they had said, just as long as they aren't telling you something there is no way to believe.

Look everybody! The sky is orange! Because you love me, I can say that and you're all dumb enough to go with it!

I refuse to be treated as a dumb animal. You will not openly deceive me and make me look like a clown if I stay on your bandwagon.
I get it. But I also think that it may not have registered with him, especially if he didn't grab her hard. I mean, that video doesn't look like she almost fell backwards as she claimed. And Trump was going to believe his campaign manager. You really think when he told Trump "no way" that Trump said, "let's go find a video of it" and spent time reviewing it?

No, I believe they were going to completely deny that there was any contact with this person and then other people started leaking the info. One guy released a video that he had just seconds after the grab where she is complaining about how hard he yanked her arm. She also brought it up at work and was told to be quiet, that resulted in her other coworkers becoming upset that their employer would go this route and they backed her because it could have been any one of them. Several of the Brietbart team walked out because of it. They have spoken out as well.

Another separate tape shows that they were very close to each other but you can't see quite what happened.

I think they had to bring the overhead surveillance footage out to keep people from imagining what happened. Obscure details were letting the story grow about how she had to work to stay upright and that he was trying to get her to the ground. This is the most definitive piece of tape. I will agree that the grab was not life threatening but the fact that he tweeted out calling her delusional and denying anything ever happened, I am taking issue.

I don't think she was seriously injured. I think that she would have no traction here if Trump and his manager handled it correctly. They are both willing to just lie and be ugly about it.

Trump should have said, "That's not what I saw" Or "I didn't see it and I tend to believe my guys because I know they are great people" There are several options that leave wiggle room but they chose to flat out lie.

A good leader can admit fault. It's a trait I look for when I get to decide about people I would want around. Trump obviously doesn't have that. He would put this guy in his place and apologize for the attempt to lie it away. Instead, Trump joined in the lie.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

This is the video -

This is her description of that incident, please pay attention to the red -

I never sought to be part of the story.

On Tuesday night, I went to cover Donald Trump’s press conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida. I was looking to cover the event like I have covered many live political events for Breitbart News, including an uneventful Trump press conference in Palm Beach the week before.

Addressing the gathered reporters and the nation at large, Trump was in an especially jovial mood Tuesday night. The networks just declared he had won the Mississippi Republican primary and, during his speech, that he won Michigan Republican primary as well.

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.

The Washington Post’s Ben Terris immediately remarked that it was Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who aggressively tried to pull me to the ground. I quickly turned around and saw Lewandowski and Trump exiting the building together. No apology. No explanation for why he did this.

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. But what made this especially jarring is that there was no hint Trump was done taking questions. No one was pushing him to get away. He seemed to have been happily answering queries from my fellow reporters just a moment before.

Many people have been asking me on Twitter and in emails what exactly happened Tuesday night. I hope this article answers those questions and I can get back to reporting the news, not being a part of it.

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Big Journalism, 2016 Presidential Race, Donald Trump, Corey Lewandowski, Michelle Fields, Ben Terris

FNW · Guru

I understand she has a history of pulling this crap. She did it to a NYC police officer and sued him as well. It's her M.O.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Now, if THAT was the story she was telling from that video, then I understand a flat out denial of her accusations. And he immediately let her go and walked away - he probably DIDN'T know who she was.

Trump did not approach her, she chased after him, and she did not so much as stumble in that video. She turned and looked right at him, and he let her go and walked off.

-- Edited by Lawyerlady on Wednesday 30th of March 2016 03:49:37 PM

TrudyML · Guru

Oh, for chrissakes go to a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert and see if you get tackled. Report back!

Empyreal · Senior Member

Yeah.

So if he wouldn't have said this lady is delusional I've never seen or touched her, we would be talking about what a drama queen she is. Not what a liar he is.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Empyreal wrote:
Yeah.

So if he wouldn't have said this lady is delusional I've never seen or touched her, we would be talking about what a drama queen she is. Not what a liar he is.

Her description of what happened was very exaggerated.

Empyreal · Senior Member

so was his

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

FNW wrote:
I understand she has a history of pulling this crap. She did it to a NYC police officer and sued him as well. It's her M.O.

Yep. One hundred percent true. She was a reporter covering Occupy Wallstreet. Apparently she got pulled into the mob and fought back when an officer tried to arrest her or whatever he was doing. But she was not there to protest. She was there covering the demonstration.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Empyreal wrote:
so was his

He probably didn't give it a second thought. This happened weeks ago and she JUST pressed charges. What's the matter, Michelle, only got 5 minutes of fame instead of 15?

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Lawyerlady wrote:
Empyreal wrote:
so was his
He probably didn't give it a second thought. This happened weeks ago and she JUST pressed charges. What's the matter, Michelle, only got 5 minutes of fame instead of 15?

She actually filed three days after it happened. It's been being investigated for a few weeks now.

Empyreal · Senior Member

He didn't have to say anything about it. He chose to call her delusional and deny any sort of contact.

Is he delusional?

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Here's the thing. You are in a crowd, trying to protect your boss, a woman gets too close and touches him, asking him questions, you pull her away, let go and walk off. You don't know who she was and don't give it a second thought. Then, after a few days, you get accused of grabbing a woman and yanking her to the ground, and you are like "what the hell - NO - I didn't do that! I don't know who she is or what she is talking about!"

I can EASILY see that being the case.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Especially when she described the situation it occurred in so differently. She said Trump was walking up to HER.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Here's the deal. Michelle Fields works for Brietbart which a media outlet that has OPENLY endorses Trump. She has interviewed Trump on several occasions and met Corey before then because he works with setting the media up. That is part of his job. They have both had contact with her before. It makes it harder to believe they don't know who she is when they have dealt with her in the past on interviews.

Empyreal · Senior Member

Don't you think people say all kinds or wacky things, to and about Trump/Trump's peeps?

Do you think he responds to all of them? Or he just got a wild hair and picked her to respond to?

I'm pretty sure he was aware of her long before that day. She is no stranger to Trump's campaign. I was aware of who she is before this deal and I'm not the most political person.

cadiver · Senior Member

Lawyerlady wrote:
Empyreal wrote:
so was his
He probably didn't give it a second thought. This happened weeks ago and she JUST pressed charges. What's the matter, Michelle, only got 5 minutes of fame instead of 15?

Actually she pressed charges March 11. Before she did there was criticism that if it happened why wasn't there a police report.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

cadiver wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Empyreal wrote:
so was his
He probably didn't give it a second thought. This happened weeks ago and she JUST pressed charges. What's the matter, Michelle, only got 5 minutes of fame instead of 15?
Actually she pressed charges March 11. Before she did there was criticism that if it happened why wasn't there a police report.

Yes, this has been being investigated for a couple weeks. I think the police were trying to gather all the information and video to see if charges were warranted. He has now been charged so apparently they thought there was enough there. Whether or not it goes to court is another matter all together.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Here's the deal. Michelle Fields works for Brietbart which a media outlet that has OPENLY endorses Trump. She has interviewed Trump on several occasions and met Corey before then because he works with setting the media up. That is part of his job. They have both had contact with her before. It makes it harder to believe they don't know who she is when they have dealt with her in the past on interviews.

So you are saying you know that he personally knew her, personally arranged interviews and that she wasn't just another reporter at press conferences? Because I've gone back 6 pages in Google and can't find where she had a personal interview with Trump, and it's not mentioned in the Breitbart announcements when they hired her.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
cadiver wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Empyreal wrote:
so was his
He probably didn't give it a second thought. This happened weeks ago and she JUST pressed charges. What's the matter, Michelle, only got 5 minutes of fame instead of 15?
Actually she pressed charges March 11. Before she did there was criticism that if it happened why wasn't there a police report.
Yes, this has been being investigated for a couple weeks. I think the police were trying to gather all the information and video to see if charges were warranted. He has now been charged so apparently they thought there was enough there. Whether or not it goes to court is another matter all together.

Well, under that law, with the video they have, Trump can press charges against her.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

by Matthew Boyle

Text messages between myself and Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, prove that an article in The Daily Beast that alleged Lewandowski admitted to me he grabbed Michelle Fields’ arm at a Trump press conference is entirely inaccurate and untrue.

The article, from The Daily Beast’s editor Lloyd Grove, relied originally on anonymous sources–and the allegation has since been made by Fields herself on the record, according to Grove’s latest email inquiry to me–to report that “sources said Lewandowski acknowledged to Breitbart’s Washington political editor, Matthew Boyle, that he did manhandle Fields.”

“Lewandowski’s explanation to Boyle, said these sources, 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,” Grove wrote.

That assertion is entirely untrue.

Here is the entire transcript with time stamps of every text message Lewandowski and I exchanged that evening about the matter.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT:

10:50 p.m. ME: “Hey dude what happened with Michelle Fields tonight? Is everything OK?”

10:51 p.m. COREY: “Who?”

10:52 p.m. ME: “Check out @Jamie_Weinstein’s Tweet: [LINK TO TWEET]”

10:52 p.m. ME: “Michelle is our reporter we sent to Jupiter. It sounds to me like it was a misunderstanding nothing bad.”

10:53 p.m. ME: “Michelle didn’t know Jamie tweeted that BTW”

10:53 p.m. ME: “I just talked to her about it”

10:56 p.m. COREY: “Don’t know her”

11:00 p.m. ME: “K I wanna make sure that this doesn’t turn into a big story. It sounds to me like it was a misunderstanding”

END TRANSCRIPT

Screenshots of the text messages are here:

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Lewandowski and I never had a phone call about this. In fact, the two of us have not spoken via phone in weeks.

What’s more, an email exchange I had with Lewandowski after The Daily Beast story was published further proves that we both knew what Grove alleged falsely was untrue. The Washington Post first reported on the email exchange.

“This is totally false,” Lewandowski wrote to me in an email with a link to The Daily Beast piece on Thursday. “You and I have not spoken on the phone in weeks and you know that’s the truth.”

In response, on Thursday, I wrote: “I know that. Of course it’s false. I had nothing to do with this and I never said to anyone what he reported here so I don’t know how that happened. Anyway, we’re going to respond shortly.”

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

Much ado about nothing.

Yes, I watched the film.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Yep. Don't care. And wouldn't even care if it was Hillary's campaign manager.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

He didn't throw her down and beat her. It's just a lot of overblown crap.

FNW · Guru

The manager was a former state trooper. For NYC, I think. He was trained in protective services. The secret service failed. While they were standing around scratching their balls, the manager stepped in and did what he was trained to do. Keep a stranger from touching his boss. He pushed her away. Had this been a man, this would be a non-story. The SS probably did nothing because she was a woman. This was their fail.

And let's not overlook the fact that her employer, Breitbert, is funded by hedge fund magnate, Mercer, a huge Cruz supporter.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Breitbart endorsed Trump.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Breitbart endorsed Trump.

And she was their employee. That says a lot.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Lawyerlady wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Breitbart endorsed Trump.
And she was their employee. That says a lot.

She says before this happened she intended to vote for Trump.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Breitbart endorsed Trump.
And she was their employee. That says a lot.
She says before this happened she intended to vote for Trump.

Well, she isn't innocent in this. She was doing something she shouldn't be and she lied about what happened. The problem is that many people, like some on here, will just take what she says at face value and not investigate further. What I've looked at and seen - he didn't do anything wrong, and the fact that she pressed charges says she's nothing but a media whore.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Should anyone put their hands on another? No. They should not. And if he is charged and found guilty, then so be it. But, that doesn't have anything to do with the election.