Remember Corey Lewandowski, President Trump&#8217;s former campaign manager who became a household name after he faced charges of battery against then-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields? He might soon be in the White House to lead the president&#8217;s war room.
According to <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/30/trump-aides-dreading-a-return-of-trainwreck-corey-lewandowski">The Daily Beast</a>, Lewandowski and David Bossie, the Trump campaign&#8217;s deputy manager, are believed to be leading candidates to be the &#8220;crisis managers&#8221; to handle the fallout of scandals plaguing the Trump presidency.
Here are five things you need to know about Lewandowski.
1. Lewandowski <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Corey_Lewandowski">worked</a> on a few congressional campaigns prior to the Trump campaign. He worked on Rep. <a href="https://www.congress.gov/member/peter-torkildsen/T000314">Peter </a><a href="https://www.congress.gov/member/peter-torkildsen/T000314">Torkildsen</a>&#8216;s (R-MA) campaign and was the campaign manager for the re-election campaigns of Rep. <a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000081">Robert Ney</a> (R-OH) and Sen. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Bob_Smith_(New_Hampshire)">Bob Smith</a> (R-NH). Ney won re-election in a district that leans Democrat, but Smith lost in the primary to John Sununu. In the latter instance, Lewandowski hammered Sununu for going to an American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee fundraiser.
&#8220;If that is the type of person Congressman Sununu feels should be contributing to his campaign, then I think that may call into question his views on terrorism,&#8221; Lewandowski <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-and-lewandowski-an-unlikely-pair-of-kindred-spirits/2016/03/30/d82a58ca-f511-11e5-8b23-538270a1ca31_story.html?utm_term=.474a68bbb556">said</a>. Sununu&#8217;s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/21/us/behind-the-sununu-surname.html">ancestry</a> is part-Lebanese.
2. Lewandowski first became connected to Trump through Bossie in 2014. It was Bossie who suggested that Lewandowski meet the future president; they met at an Americans for Prosperity event, where Lewandowski was working at the time.
&#8220;He talks about all the things that he wants to do, and I&#8217;m listening, and he&#8217;s telling me about what his vision is to change the country, and I&#8217;m instantly &#8212; just enamored, would be the word,&#8221; Lewandowski told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-and-lewandowski-an-unlikely-pair-of-kindred-spirits/2016/03/30/d82a58ca-f511-11e5-8b23-538270a1ca31_story.html?utm_term=.474a68bbb556">The Washington Post</a>.
3. An incident between Lewandowski and Fields made national news during the 2016 presidential primary. As Trump was being escorted out of a campaign event, Fields attempted to ask the future president a question about affirmative action; Lewandowski suddenly intervened by grabbing Fields&#8217; arm and yanking her downward. The Trump campaign proceeded to deny Fields&#8217; allegation and smear her, even as <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4486/7-important-lessons-about-trump-campaign-ben-shapiro">video evidence</a> proved Fields&#8217; story to be correct. Lewandowski did face charges of battery at one point but those charges were dropped due to <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4937/ben-shapiro-responds-trumps-campaign-manager-not-james-barrett">prosecutorial discretion</a>.
4. Lewandowski was <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/corey-lewandowski-trump">fired</a> from his position as Trump&#8217;s campaign manager in June. Trump&#8217;s daughter, Ivanka, told her father that she would leave the campaign if Lewandowski stayed on board. Naturally, Ivanka won.
Ivanka had been lobbying for Lewandowski&#8217;s ouster for months, but her threat was prompted by allegations of Lewandowski circulating stories that portrayed her husband, Jared Kushner, in a bad light.
5. White House officials are not happy about the prospect of Lewandowksi joining the administration. The Daily Beast <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/30/trump-aides-dreading-a-return-of-trainwreck-corey-lewandowski">quotes</a> one White House official as calling Lewandowski&#8217;s potential hiring a &#8220;trainwreck&#8221; and another saying, &#8220;I gagged when I [first] heard that,&#8221; since Lewandowski &#8220;would be a hothead in a [White House] that needs the opposite.&#8221;
More from The Daily Beast:
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Since the campaign, Lewandowski has made his fair share of enemies within Trump&#8217;s inner circle, especially chief of staff Reince Priebus, who Lewandowski casually trash-talks about in private. Other close Trump aides, such as his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, object to Lewandowski&#8217;s style and temperament. The former Trump campaign manager is also openly loathed by Trump&#8217;s longtime political adviser Roger Stone, who calls Lewandowski a &#8220;cocksucker.&#8221;
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The sources cited in the article suggest that Lewandowski is more likely to have a role in aiding Trump outside the White House than in it; however, it&#8217;s clear that many inside the White House would be displeased at Lewandowski&#8217;s hiring.
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5 Things You Need To Know About Corey Lewandowski, The Guy Trump Might Be Bringing In To Lead His War Room

Corey Lewandowski

Donald Trump

Michelle Fields

Trump Administration

Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, stonewalling again, told Chris Wallace of Fox News that he wouldn&#8217;t apologize to Michelle Fields, despite the fact that he claims he tried calling her after she called him asking for an apology back in March, when Lewandowski grabbed her after a Donald Trump press conference. Lewandowski had <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/15/corey-lewandowski-says-he-reached-out-to-reporter-after-encounter/">told CNN</a>, &#8220;I made a phone call to Michelle and I never heard back, and to this day I&#8217;ve never heard back from Michelle. So, it&#8217;s not that we didn&#8217;t try and reach out to get to the bottom of it, it seems to be that she wanted to inject herself into making it a story, and now I&#8217;m glad the story&#8217;s over.&#8221;
Fields has stated, &#8220;I have no record of him calling me. Certainly no message.&#8221; It would seem a normal person intending to apologize would persist, rather than do what Lewandowski did by calling Fields &#8220;delusional,&#8221; but the Trump campaign doesn&#8217;t exactly devote itself to the truth, as has been <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4834/trumps-101-lies-hank-berrien">comprehensively documented</a> before.
After the Palm Beach Police decided against prosecuting the battery charge Fields brought against Lewandowski, Fields intimated she would bring a libel suit against Lewandowski for smearing her reputation in the aftermath of the incident.
Wallace, working for a network which has seemingly instructed its employees to align themselves with Trump, (with some heroic exceptions like Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier and Dana Perino) clearly tried to minimize the initial encounter Lewandowski had with Fields, but still attempted to elicit an apology from Lewandowski to Fields.
The <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/heres-how-it-went-when-chris-wallace-pressed-corey-lewandowski-to-apologize-to-michelle-fields/">exchange</a> went like this:
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Wallace: Mr. Lewandowski, Corey, I&#8217;m going to call you that. Let&#8217;s start because I guess we have to with the saga over your encounter with Michelle Fields after a Trump news conference back in March. Here&#8217;s what she said: &#8220;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.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what you tweeted to Fields: &#8220;You are totally delusional. I never touched you.&#8221;
 
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Wallace then showed the video of the incident, (continuing with Wallace&#8217;s tacit slam at Fields which ignored the bruises on her arm), &#8220;And here&#8217;s the video from that night, which shows you clearly did grab her, but not as violently as she said. Do you now acknowledge that you did touch Miss Fields, and that she is not delusional?&#8221;
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Lewandowski: Well, no, what I acknowledge is the sum total of my relationship with Miss Fields was caught on that videotape. She is an individual I had never met before and never spoken to before, and candidly, I didn&#8217;t remember the incident. The whole incident lasted less than three seconds, and it was me moving from one location to another location. I would have remembered if I&#8217;d tried to violently throw someone to the ground or if there was an incident which would have been memorable. And there wasn&#8217;t. I tried to contact Miss Fields after I read on her boyfriend&#8217;s Twitter feed that something took place that evening, but to this day I&#8217;ve never heard from Mrs. Fields, or Miss Fields, so, you know, I am happy that the Palm Beach County district attorney decided not to move forward with any charges; I&#8217;m happy that this is behind us; I&#8217;m happy to move forward with the campaign.
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Wallace: A couple of points I want to make: One, first of all, she says that she has no record that you ever tried to reach her, doesn&#8217;t have a record of your phone, doesn&#8217;t have a message that was left. In addition, as we both have pointed out, the Palm Beach prosecutor said that there&#8217;s not enough evidence and enough chance for success to actually go ahead and prosecute the case, but on the other hand, Fields has left open the possibility of a civil suit for defamation against you and against Trump. In the interest of avoiding unnecessary litigation, which I know Republicans don&#8217;t like, are you prepared, here and now, to apologize to Miss Fields for touching her and for saying that she was delusional?
Lewandowski: Well &#8230; here and now I&#8217;d like to say is again I&#8217;ve never spoken to Miss Fields. And so, I turned over my phone records to the Palm Beach County District Attorney&#8217;s office, it clearly shows I called her phone number that evening, when I got back and read about this on the Twitter feed. I&#8217;d be happy to have a conversation with her. But to apologize to someone I&#8217;ve never spoken to, and candidly don&#8217;t ever remember having any interaction with, I think is something that is a little unrealistic right now, but I have said, and would be happy to say again, it&#8217;s a person I&#8217;ve never spoken to. I&#8217;d be happy to have that conversation if we can put this thing behind us. 
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Lewandowski: No, I Won’t Apologize Even Though I Tried To Before

Chris Wallace

When conservatives think about what they most hate about the left, several factors come to mind: their racist appeals, their whining social justice warrior nonsense, their distinct willingness to attack conservative women, their consistent stream of lies, their perversion of buzzwords.
Those things do not become good just because a Republican does them. They are nasty in and of themselves. Yet the Trump campaign is almost purely a mash-up of these ugly traits. Here are 7 behaviors that make conservatives rightly despise leftism &#8211; but that conservatives seem more than willing to overlook in Trump:
Whining About The Rules. Democrats&#8217; entire party platform is predicated on whining about the Constitution of the United States. They firmly believe that anything they don&#8217;t like must be barred by the Constitution, and anything they do like must be mandated by it. This is true of rule of law, too: if Democratic allies riot, Democrats say the law is unfair. If certain constituencies end up in jail, they blame the criminal justice system and calls the rules corrupt. If certain constituencies end up poor, they blame &#8220;the system&#8221; rather than individual choices.
That&#8217;s all Donald Trump does lately. Instead of whining about the Constitution, he&#8217;s whining about the delegate rules in Colorado and a caucus system that has been in place for approximately 104 years. It&#8217;s not about him making bad decisions &#8211; it&#8217;s about the rules being unfair. Even though he knew them.
Pandering On The Basis Of Race. Barack Obama has been the most racially divisive president of my lifetime. He&#8217;s sicced his Attorney General on unsuspecting police departments, armed with no evidence of racism but a self-righteous certainty that law enforcement must be punished. He&#8217;s said that America carries racism in our DNA. He&#8217;s said that Trayvon Martin could have been his son, and he&#8217;s justified rioting. Now, Hillary Clinton does the same, undercutting her husband&#8217;s crime-fighting legacy to pander to members of the black community, some of whom would undoubtedly be dead if not for the Clinton crackdown on crime.
In response, Donald Trump has engaged in racial turnabout as fair play, pandering to disaffected white voters who feel that government has left them behind. There&#8217;s a reason Trump went soft on the KKK just before the Louisiana primary. There&#8217;s a reason his alt-right base is so all-fired enthusiastic about his rise. Trump is a grievance-monger for poor white blue collar workers. That&#8217;s why he pledges to beat down corporations with trade barriers until they return to those areas. Racial pandering of this sort is ugly no matter how it&#8217;s played. Defending government-crafted welfare plans to benefit whites is no less horrific than defending government-crafted welfare plans for blacks. As <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434100/white-working-class-donald?target=author&amp;tid=903320" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kevin Williamson</a> puts it, &#8220;If you wanted to know whether white identity politics inspired by Donald Trump is going to be as foolish and morally reprehensible as black identity politics inspired by Al Sharpton, there&#8217;s your answer.&#8221;
Playing Social Justice Warrior. One of the great irritations of the left is their ridiculous penchant for playing the race card at every opportunity. President Obama has consistently suggested that his opponents dislike him because of his melanin level. Hillary says that all of the Republicans are racists. Vice President Joe Biden said in 2012 that Republicans wanted to &#8220;put y&#8217;all back in chains.&#8221;
Now, it&#8217;s Trump surrogate Ben Carson doing this kind of dirty work.
With Trump whining about the Colorado caucuses, World Worst Surrogate&#8482; Ben Carson has taken to the microphones to explain that the Colorado caucus rules were just like Jim Crow: &#8220;Yeah, well, you know, during the Jim Crow era, those were the rules too. They were written. Everybody knew about them, didn&#8217;t make them right. And I&#8217;m not saying this is the same. But, you know, I think you get the point.&#8221;
Yes, we do. And it&#8217;s pathetic. Comparing fair and free elections to a system of law designed to disenfranchise black voters and punish businesses who treated blacks equally is morally insipid.
The Microaggression Culture. The left proclaims that offensive words may be met with action. They deem it a &#8220;microaggression&#8221; worthy of government intervention if a business refuses to treat a man who thinks he is a woman as a woman for purposes of peeing. They call the cops when a baker won&#8217;t bake a cake for a same-sex wedding.
Trump calls on his fans to rough up protesters who disagree with him. His followers &#8211; including the <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/roger-stone-donald-trump-delegates-convention-hotel-221586">execrable Roger Stone</a> &#8212; doxx those who disagree with Trump, unchastened by their godking. Trump says on national television that he&#8217;ll look into paying for the legal defense of a guy who coldcocked a black protester. Trump must maintain his &#8220;safe space,&#8221; after all.
Vicious Smearing Of Women. Sarah Palin came under fire from the left for the crime of being a conservative woman. So has Michelle Malkin. So has Ann Coulter. Women who do not buy into the left&#8217;s abortion-only version of womanhood find themselves on the receiving end of vile smear after vile smear. Chivalry doesn&#8217;t exist on the left.
It doesn&#8217;t exist for Trump, either. Cross the Dear Leader and commit the sin of having a womb, and you will be hit with a level of vitriol higher than that of the typical man who disagrees with Trump. Amanda Carpenter will be called an adulteress on national television for backing Ted Cruz. Megyn Kelly will be accused of bleeding from her &#8220;wherever&#8221; for the thoughtcrime of asking Trump tough questions. Michelle Fields will be smeared as an &#8220;attention-seeker&#8221; for reporting an undeniable grab and bruise from Trump&#8217;s campaign manager. Heidi Cruz will be labeled ugly by Trump personally for the crime of being married to Cruz. Conservatism is about the notion that men defend women from assault. The Trump campaign forwards such treatment. Which makes sense, given that their leader is a man who once told New York magazine, &#8220;Women, you have to treat them like s***.&#8221;
Lying For The Sake Of Lying. The left lies with skill and precision. Hillary Clinton maintains, straightfaced, that she did yeoman&#8217;s work in Libya, that she never stashed classified information on private servers, and that if she did, it was totally legitimate. Barack Obama says that the IRS never targeted conservatives, says that he never knew anything about Fast and Furious, and overlooks corruption in virtually every department under his watch. It&#8217;s maddening to watch the left gaslight Americans, and to watch the media help.
But these people are pikers next to Trump. Democratic lies are calculated. Trump&#8217;s are brazen, consistent, and overwhelming. Trump lies every five minutes in his speeches. In one townhall event, he lied upwards of 70 times. We have catalogued <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4834/trumps-101-lies-hank-berrien">101 of Trump&#8217;s lies</a>, and could easily have reached 500. Most disturbing, his supporters move the goalposts right along with him, pretending he is telling the truth until he is disproved, at which point he gives them a new lie to believe. When Corey Lewandowski changes his story <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/5000/complete-timeline-lewandowskis-changing-positions-amanda-prestigiacomo">nine times </a>about the Michelle Fields incident while Fields never changes her story once, Trump&#8217;s backers keep shouting &#8220;hoax&#8221; until the gaslighting takes hold. And Trump and his media sycophants egg it on.
Perverting Buzzwords. The Obama administration uses idiotic catch-phrases like &#8220;right side of history&#8221; and &#8220;evolved&#8221; to describe favored policies, and embraces &#8220;social justice&#8221; in order to promote big government leftism. This irritates conservatives, and for good reason: these phrases mean nothing.
Trump does something worse: he takes meaningful phrases and words and injects them with brain feces. So do others in his campaign. Thus, Lewandowski says, &#8220;Everything is politically correct, nowadays&#8221; after blatantly lying about whether he grabbed a reporter, then saying nothing for a month, then coming up with the ridiculous story that he was acting to preserve the life of his boss from that ISIS assassin 90-lb. reporteress with the pen bomb. That&#8217;s just Corey being politically incorrect! When Trump mocks POWs or the disabled, his supporters say the same: he&#8217;s just being politically incorrect!
This robs the term of all meaning. Political incorrectness is stating important facts regardless of the dictates of the politically correct left seeking to stop dissemination of vital information. To Trump, being &#8220;politically incorrect&#8221; just means being a jackass. 
Or take the term &#8220;establishment.&#8221; Trump says that Ted Cruz is the &#8220;establishment.&#8221; This is like saying that I am a charter member of the Trump campaign. It&#8217;s nonsensical. If Cruz is &#8220;establishment,&#8221; the term has no meaning. Trump is the guy who spent oodles of money on Democrats for purposes of buying people off, who hobnobs with the chichi (and pays them to come to his wedding), who makes friends with people on all sides of the aisle to cut deals that benefit him. But Cruz is the &#8220;establishment.&#8221;
Idiotic. And just as damaging as when the left cuts the heart out of language to accomplish their purposes.
The left is indecent. That&#8217;s why conservatives hate the left.
But so is Trump.
Now, some conservatives revel in this. They think it&#8217;s turnabout as fair play. They think Trump is fighting fire with fire, that it takes a leftist strategy to beat leftists.
Sometimes that&#8217;s true.
Not here. Trump is a personal totalitarian with only one centralizing principle, maximization of power. He acts like a leftist because he is one. He&#8217;s not using leftist tactics to defeat leftism. He&#8217;s using them to destroy conservatism itself. Once the earth has been salted, he hopes to build a new Trump Tower.

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Ben Carson

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was charged with misdemeanor battery after video surveillance corroborated former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields&#8217; claims that she was &#8220;grabbed&#8221; and &#8220;jolted backward&#8221; by Mr. Lewandowski. On Thursday, prosecutors stated that the would not move forward with the simple battery charge.
The charge being dropped, of course, does not detract from Lewandowski, as seen on video, grabbing Fields&#8212;a claim he initially denied. It also doesn&#8217;t change that Lewandowski lied about the incident on numerous occasions. In fact, the campaign manager changed his position on the incident a whopping nine times.
Here&#8217;s the timeline:
Position 1: I never touched her. Fields is &#8220;delusional&#8221; and an &#8220;attention seeker.&#8221;
On March 11, Lewandowski initially claimed pure innocence: he never touched Ms. Fields; he had never even met her, and she was &#8220;totally delusional.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleFields">@MichelleFields</a> you are totally delusional. I never touched you. As a matter of fact, I have never even met you.
&#8212; Corey Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) <a href="https://twitter.com/CLewandowski_/status/708162663579144192">March 11, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Moreover, Fields was nothing more than an &#8220;attention seeker&#8221; with a history of becoming part of the story.
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Daily Caller reporter assaulted by NYPD during &#8216;Occupy&#8217; protests &#8212; professional reporting or attention seeking? <a href="https://t.co/FqOQQMvNcy">https://t.co/FqOQQMvNcy</a>
&#8212; Corey Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) <a href="https://twitter.com/CLewandowski_/status/708013500564684800">March 10, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Michelle Fields is an attention seeker who once claimed Allen West groped her but later went silent. <a href="https://t.co/J86Ej42eYx">https://t.co/J86Ej42eYx</a>
&#8212; Corey Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) <a href="https://twitter.com/CLewandowski_/status/708020305013448704">March 10, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Position 2: It must have been a Secret Service guy.
After the incident was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/03/11/washington-post-reporter-rebuts-breitbart-story-about-possible-mistaken-identity-in-michelle-fields-incident/">corroborated</a> by Washington Post reporter Ben Terris and Fields displayed the bruises on her arm from the grab by Lewandowski, the campaign manager changed his tune. Lewandowski still claimed that he never touched her, but it was suggested that it was a security officer that did; the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/11/trump-presser-ben-terris-misidentified/">allegation</a> presented by Breitbart News was tweeted out by the Trump camp.
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At 16:31, Lewandowski and the security official appear in the frame together again &#8212; Lewandowski at left and the security official, with earpiece, on the right. Both have &#8220;short-cropped hair,&#8221; in Terris&#8217;s terms.
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Position 3: Okay, so maybe I touched her, but it wasn&#8217;t a big deal.
In late March, Team Trump was singing a different tune about Lewandowski: the campaign manager touched her&#8212;but, come on, he barely touched her.
Per <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3514166/Trump-campaign-manager-Corey-Lewandowski-charged-battery-grabbing-reporter.html">The Daily Mail UK</a>:
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&#8216;Before she knew she was on tape, she said: &#8216;I was jolted backwards!&#8221; Trump said, rendering the words in an exaggerated tone.
&#8216;Was she jolted backwards? I mean, if she was, her face stayed the same.&#8217; he insisted.
&#8216;I was jolted backwards! Someone grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me down. Campaign managers aren&#8217;t supposed to forcefully throw reporters to the ground,&#8217; Trump continued, reading from a March 10 account published under Fields&#8217; name.
&#8216;Except she never went to the ground. She never even came &#8211; she never even flinched!&#8217; 
One brief moment in the performance may generate more controversy for the businessman-turned-pol.
Asking whether his audience members had seen the video footage released by police on Tuesday, he asked: &#8216;What did you think, right? Nothing!&#8217;
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Position 4: I touched her, but to save Trump from an attack. 
After video evidence shows that Lewandowski likely did grab Fields, the campaign manager changed his position yet again: this time, he was a hero.
On March 30, Trump infamously stated that Fields, a small female reporter who was seemingly vetted by Secret Service, was a threat to the frontrunner. Trump explained that the pen Fields was holding could have been a <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/03/30/trump-the-pen-reporter-michelle-fields-was-carrying-could-have-been-a-little-bomb-n2140854">&#8220;knife&#8221; or a &#8220;little bomb.&#8221;</a> Seriously.
Of course, no apology was necessary from Lewandowski now, the narrative went, but perhaps Fields should apologize to Trump for being a threat and allegedly making contact with him. Trump even suggested filing criminal battery charges against the reporter.
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Victory press conference was over. 
Why is she allowed to grab me and shout questions? Can I press charges? <a href="https://t.co/qbW2RjkINX">pic.twitter.com/qbW2RjkINX</a>
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/714891184867508224">March 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Position 5: Trump says Lewandowski should probably have apologized, but it wouldn&#8217;t have helped.
Speaking to Maureen Dowd in an interview published on April 3, Trump admitted that Lewandowski should have apologized to Fields, but stated that it &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t have mattered.&#8221; 
<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/donald-trump-admits-he-makes-mistakes.html">Per</a> New York Magazine:
<blockquote>
In Maureen Dowd&#8217;s interview, she got Trump to budge on the issue, glacially:
Wouldn&#8217;t it have been better, I asked, if Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski had simply called the reporter Michelle Fields and apologized for yanking her arm?
&#8220;You&#8217;re right, but from what I understand it wouldn&#8217;t have mattered,&#8221; Trump said.
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Position 6: I&#8217;ll write an apology. 
According to Politico reporter Hadas Gold on April 14: &#8220;Attorneys for Lewandowksi were working on an apology to Fields earlier this week, but they haven&#8217;t sent it.&#8221;
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Attorneys for Lewandowksi were working on an apology to Fields earlier this week, but they haven&#8217;t sent it.
&#8212; Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) <a href="https://twitter.com/Hadas_Gold/status/720676207134642176">April 14, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Conservative pundit Katie Pavlich also noted on Twitter that &#8220;there is a draft apology from Lewandowski to Fields written&#8221; according to prosecutors.
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According to prosecutors, there is a draft apology from Lewandowski to Fields written
&#8212; Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/720676729422012417">April 14, 2016</a></blockquote>
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But according to the state attorney, there was <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/15/corey-lewandowski-grabbed-michelle-fields-arm-and-then-smeared-her-professional-reputation/">no such apology</a>:
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&#8220;Acknowledging &#8216;international attention to this case, which doesn&#8217;t exist in just about any other simple battery case,&#8221; Aronberg said Lewandowski could have prevented the blow-up if he had only apologized to Fields.
&#8220;&#8217;I think that had an apology been given at the beginning of all this, we could have avoided the whole criminal justice process for this matter,&#8217; Aronberg said.&#8221;
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Position 7: This matter is concluded, I&#8217;m innocent. 
On Thursday, after the charge was dropped, the Trump campaign put out a statement proclaiming Lewandowski&#8217;s innocence and explained that the &#8220;matter is now concluded.&#8221;
Lewandowski &#8220;is gratified by the decision to drop the misdemeanor charge and appreciates the thoughtful consideration and professionalism by the Palm Beach State Attorney and his staff who carefully reviewed this matter, as well as Mr. Trump&#8217;s loyalty and the support of his colleagues and family during this time. The matter is now concluded,&#8221; <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/charges-brought-trumps-campaign-manager-corey-lewandowski/story?id=38399886">reads</a> the statement.
Position 8: Sure, I grabbed her, but I was just being politically incorrect. 
On Thursday night, Lewandowski appeared on the Trump-friendly &#8220;The Sean Hannity Show&#8221; where he equated the incident with political correctness run amok: &#8220;Everything is politically correct nowadays,&#8221; he lamented.
Here&#8217;s that <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4993/lewandowski-tells-hannity-grabbing-and-bruising-amanda-prestigiacomo">exchange</a> between Hannity and Lewandowski:
&#8220;What&#8217;s interesting to me is, you&#8217;re saying you&#8217;ve never met her before, you&#8217;ve never talked to her before, and they tried to make a big deal over that fact that, well, maybe he didn&#8217;t yank her to the ground, but he said he didn&#8217;t touch her, and the tape shows that he might have touched her,&#8221; started Hannity, laying the ground work for the &#8220;politically correctness&#8221; excuse for Lewandowski. &#8220;And I&#8217;ve looked at that point and said &#8216;Is that where we&#8217;ve gotten to in this campaign?&#8217;&#8221; said Hannity.
&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s not just the campaign, it&#8217;s this notion of politically correctness,&#8221; replied Lewandowski. &#8220;Everything is politically correct nowadays, and I think what people have to remember, when they take a look back is, &#8216;What are we doing right now?&#8217; Everything is so politically correct,&#8221; he said, adding, in a tone of befuddlement, that he even &#8220;politely&#8221; said &#8220;excuse me&#8221; and &#8220;thank you&#8221; when he grabbed Fields.
Position 9: I called to apologize but she didn&#8217;t get back to me.
As The Daily Wire <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4985/lewandowski-allegedly-fibs-again-says-he-tried-james-barrett">reported</a> on Friday, Lewandowski, appearing on CNN&#8217;s New Day, &#8220;claimed that he had tried to contact Fields but &#8216;never heard back&#8217; and, once again, accused her of trying to &#8216;inject herself&#8217; into the story.&#8221;
&#8220;To this day, I have never heard back from Michelle,&#8221; <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/lewandowski-i-tried-to-call-fields-she-just-wanted-to-inject-herself-into-story/">said</a> the campaign manager. &#8220;She wanted to inject herself into making it a story. Now I&#8217;m glad the story is over.&#8221;
Fields denied his claim, taking to Twitter to simply write, &#8220;No. I never heard from Corey.&#8221;
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No. I never heard from Corey. <a href="https://t.co/ouFcORtppp">https://t.co/ouFcORtppp</a>
&#8212; Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleFields/status/720981451039227904">April 15, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Lewandowski may be cleared from the charge of misdemeanor battery, but he&#8217;s clearly a liar. And that alone should put him in good stead with his boss.

A Complete Timeline of Lewandowski’s Changing Positions On The Michelle Fields Incident

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According to reporter Michelle Fields, Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign manager, just told another fib about <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4475/trumps-campaign-manager-charged-battery-reporter-james-barrett">the incident</a> in which he grabbed her and forcefully pulled her away from Trump. 
In an interview Friday on CNN&#8217;s New Day in which he discussed a Florida state attorney&#8217;s decision <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4960/prosecutor-facts-support-allegations-trumps-james-barrett">not to prosecute him</a> for misdemeanor battery against the former Breitbart reporter, Lewandowski claimed that he had tried to contact Fields but &#8220;never heard back&#8221; and, once again, accused her of trying to &#8220;inject herself&#8221; into the story.
&#8220;To this day, I have never heard back from Michelle,&#8221; he <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/lewandowski-i-tried-to-call-fields-she-just-wanted-to-inject-herself-into-story/">said</a>. &#8220;She wanted to inject herself into making it a story. Now I&#8217;m glad the story is over.&#8221;
Fields took to Twitter to correct the story, writing, &#8220;No. I never heard from Corey.&#8221;
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No. I never heard from Corey. <a href="https://t.co/ouFcORtppp">https://t.co/ouFcORtppp</a>
&#8212; Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleFields/status/720981451039227904">April 15, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Until the Jupiter Police Department released surveillance footage a few weeks ago clearly showing him grabbing Fields and pulling her backward, Lewandowski denied having even &#8220;touched&#8221; her. Lewandowski tried to excuse the repeated falsehood Friday by saying the event was &#8220;barely memorable&#8221; to him.
Despite Florida state attorney David Aronberg&#8217;s confirmation Thursday that there was indeed evidence <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4960/prosecutor-facts-support-allegations-trumps-james-barrett">to warrant charges against him</a>, Lewandowski and the Trump campaign have continued to smear Fields as an &#8220;attention-seeker.&#8221;
Fields told The Blaze Wednesday night that she might <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4937/ben-shapiro-responds-trumps-campaign-manager-not-james-barrett">bring a civil suit</a> against Lewandowski and Trump for defamation of character, but she also previously tweeted that the &#8220;office of prosecutor asked 2 weeks ago if I&#8217;d be ok with an apology from Corey. I said ya but haven&#8217;t heard back about it.&#8221;
In the <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4960/prosecutor-facts-support-allegations-trumps-james-barrett">press conference </a>Thursday, Aronberg said that prosecutors had talked to Trump personally and that he planned to draft an apology to Fields.
Read more about the Lewandowski-Fields case <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4475/trumps-campaign-manager-charged-battery-reporter-james-barrett">here</a>. 
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Lewandowski Allegedly Fibs Again, Says He Tried To Call Fields

In a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/13/politics/corey-lewandowski-donald-trump-charges-dropped/">press conference</a> Thursday, Palm Beach County Florida State Attorney David Aronberg announced that though evidence supports former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields&#8217; <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4475/trumps-campaign-manager-charged-battery-reporter-james-barrett">allegation</a> that Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski grabbed her and pulled backward, he &#8220;will not be filing charges against Corey Lewandowski for battery.&#8221; He also noted that Trump spoke directly with prosecutors and that the state&#8217;s attorney attempted to get Lewandowski to write an apology, adding that a short apology letter was circulated. Fields had previously stated repeatedly that she would accept such an apology. 
&#8220;We agree that probable cause exists for the Jupiter Police Department to charge Mr. Lewandwoski in this case,&#8221; <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/13/politics/corey-lewandowski-donald-trump-charges-dropped/">said</a> Aronberg. &#8220;Our standard is higher than probable cause,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Although the facts support the allegation that Mr. Lewandowski did grab Ms. Fields&#8217; arm against her will, Mr. Lewandowski has a reasonable hypothesis of innocence.&#8221;
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Aronberg said the surveillance footage released by the JPD indeed shows Lewandowski grabbing Fields and pulling her away, as she alleged. He also underscored that Lewandowski completely <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4070/trump-says-breitbart-reporter-made-assault-her-james-barrett">denied having even &#8220;touched&#8221; her</a> in the incident, a claim that was clearly false, and noted that Trump&#8217;s security guard standing right by him did not seem to believe Fields was a threat. It is also worth noting that the first time that either Trump or Lewandowski suggested that Fields had provoked Lewandowski&#8217;s grab was weeks after the event.
Despite those facts, the state attorney said the &#8220;reasonable hypothesis of innocence&#8221; outweighs probable cause, particularly in a security situation with a high-profile figure like Trump.
Fields told The Blaze Wednesday night that she <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4937/ben-shapiro-responds-trumps-campaign-manager-not-james-barrett">planned to pursue civil action for defamation of character</a> against Lewandowski and Trump, who both <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4070/trump-says-breitbart-reporter-made-assault-her-james-barrett">smeared her publicly</a>. That was before the apology letter was officially announced. Fields tweeted Wednesday after reports that Lewandowski would not be prosecuted that the &#8220;office of prosecutor asked 2 weeks ago if I&#8217;d be ok with an apology from Corey. I said ya but haven&#8217;t heard back about it.&#8221;
&#8220;The apology, in a case like this, obviously would be encouraged,&#8221; Aronberg said. &#8220;We always appreciate when people take responsibility for their actions.&#8221;
Read more about the case <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4475/trumps-campaign-manager-charged-battery-reporter-james-barrett">here</a>.

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FL State Attorney: Yes, Trump’s Campaign Manager Grabbed Reporter, But No Prosecution

In response to a <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/trump-campaign-manager-lewandowski-221921">report</a> that Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski would not be prosecuted for misdemeanor battery against former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro noted that the choice not to prosecute does not mean Lewandowski is innocent. 
&#8220;Exercise of prosecutorial discretion is not innocence. Lewandowski grabbed her and bruised her,&#8221; Shapiro tweeted Wednesday.

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Exercise of prosecutorial discretion is not innocence. Lewandowski grabbed her and bruised her. <a href="https://t.co/Ip13QOC0gJ">https://t.co/Ip13QOC0gJ</a>
&#8212; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/720400788896395265">April 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Wednesday, <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/trump-campaign-manager-lewandowski-221921">Politico</a><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/trump-campaign-manager-lewandowski-221921"> </a>reported that &#8220;sources with knowledge of the situation&#8221; told them that the prosecutor involved in <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4475/trumps-campaign-manager-charged-battery-reporter-james-barrett">the Lewandowski-Fields case</a> was not going to press charges against Lewandowski.
&#8220;The decision not to press charges against Corey Lewandowski is scheduled to be announced on Thursday afternoon by Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aronberg,&#8221; Politico reported, noting a source told them that &#8220;Fields may still pursue a defamation case against Lewandowski.&#8221;
Fields responded to the Politico report Wednesday, calling the leak &#8220;ugly.&#8221;
&#8220;Prosecutor&#8217;s office told me they would inform me of decision tomorrow,&#8221; tweeted Fields Wednesday. &#8220;If reports true, guess they decided to leak to reporters first. Ugly.&#8221; 
She added that the prosecutor&#8217;s office asked her a couple of weeks ago if she would be satisfied with an apology from Corey. &#8220;I said ya but haven&#8217;t heard back about it,&#8221; she wrote.

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Prosecutor&#8217;s office told me they would inform me of decision tomorrow. If reports true, guess they decided to leak to reporters first. Ugly.
&#8212; Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleFields/status/720404257405538304">April 14, 2016</a></blockquote>
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For those asking, office of prosecutor asked 2 weeks ago if I&#8217;d be ok with an apology from Corey. I said ya but haven&#8217;t heard back about it
&#8212; Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleFields/status/720408910964895744">April 14, 2016</a></blockquote>
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When reports of Lewandowski&#8217;s aggressive encounter with Fields first surfaced, he <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4070/trump-says-breitbart-reporter-made-assault-her-james-barrett">denied having even had contact with her</a>, tweeting, &#8220;@MichelleFields you are totally delusional. I never touched you. As a matter of fact, I have never even met you.&#8221; The Trump campaign backed Lewandowski, Trump himself even suggesting to reporters that Fields had &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4070/trump-says-breitbart-reporter-made-assault-her-james-barrett">made up</a>&#8221; the whole thing. However, when the Jupiter Police Department filed charges against Lewandowski and released surveillance footage confirming Fields&#8217; account, the Trump campaign&#8217;s story changed. Rather than having &#8220;made up&#8221; the incident, they accused Fields of having exaggerated it for personal gain. 
Wednesday night, Fields <a href="http://Ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields said Wednesday night that she plans to pursue civil action against Donald Trump and campaign manager Corey Lewandowski over an incident that occurred last month. Fields told TheBlaze that she is looking into bringing legal action against both Trump and Lewandowski for defamation of her character.">told TheBlaze</a> she plans to pursue civil action against both Lewandowski and Trump for defamation of character. 
Read more on the case <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4475/trumps-campaign-manager-charged-battery-reporter-james-barrett">here</a>.

Ben Shapiro Responds to Report That Trump’s Campaign Manager Won’t Be Prosecuted

Ben Shapiro

According to <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/08/corey-lewandowski-called-coworker-f-cking-b-tch-yelled-at-subordinate-for-visiting-dying-grandma.html">The Daily Beast</a>, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump&#8217;s controversial campaign manager Corey Lewandowski once berated a subordinate for tending to his dying grandmother.
Pat Maloney, a former co-worker of Lewandowski&#8217;s from Americans for Prosperity (AFP), claims that Lewandowski once berated him via telephone for missing a conference call to be by his grandmother&#8217;s side as she was read her last rites. At the time, Lewandowski was the New Hampshire state director at AFP.
&#8220;My grandmother is literally dying, having Last Rites administered and I get a call from Corey chewing me out, asking who the hell did I think I was missing this conference call,&#8221; he said.
Maloney was a regional field director in Ohio for AFP when Lewandowski entered the picture. The former co-worker described Lewandowski as an aggressive &#8220;nasty brutish boor&#8221; who would frequently berate other employees &#8220;even when they were not his direct reports,&#8221; reports The Daily Beast.
&#8220;He was just a condescending, nasty brutish boor&#8221; he said of Lewandowski. &#8220;In a position of real power, he would make H.R. Haldeman in the Nixon administration look like a Boy Scout.&#8221;
Maloney also claimed that Trump&#8217;s campaign manager was often misogynistic: &#8220;There was definitely a misogynistic streak to this guy.&#8221;
Lending some credence to this claim is Lisa Bast, another former employee of Lewandowski from Ohio. Bast claims that Lewandowski once threatened to &#8220;come really down hard on her if she didn&#8217;t get 50 people to attend an AFP event in Akron.&#8221; After missing a conference call while planning the event, Lewandowski called her and went off the rails.
&#8220;Corey gets on the phone and defames my character. He called me incompetent, called me a loser,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He called me a f**king b**ch, yelling, &#8216;I am going to fire your f**king ass!&#8217;&#8221;
Bast added that above all else she was concerned with the fact that Lewandowski has &#8220;never been held accountable for his behavior.&#8221; &#8220;He was a loose cannon,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He is what he is and he needs to be exposed for the person that he is.&#8221;
Moreover, Lewandowski once allegedly called a female employee at AFP a &#8220;c*nt&#8221; in front of other staff back in 2013.
At the end of May, <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4475/trumps-campaign-manager-charged-battery-reporter-james-barrett">Lewandowski was arrested</a> on a charge of misdemeanor battery against former Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields. Video surveillance substantiated Fields&#8217; claims that the campaign manager had grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back when she attempted to ask Trump a question regarding affirmative action.
Lewandowski instantly claimed that he had never met Fields and smeared her as an &#8220;attention seeker.&#8221; Trump infamously stood by Lewandowski on grounds of &#8220;loyalty.&#8221;
&#8220;Typical Corey,&#8221; said a former co-worker of Lewandowski&#8217;s from AFP who asked to be kept anonymous. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t surprise me. That&#8217;s not atypical at all.&#8221;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4475/trumps-campaign-manager-charged-battery-reporter-james-barrett">&#8203;</a>

Trump’s Campaign Manager Yelled At A Subordinate. You Won’t Believe Why.

<div>Fox News host Sean Hannity officially entered the Donald Trump-Michelle Fields feud Monday when he <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4659/hannity-i-didnt-see-lewandowski-assault-fields-robert-kraychik">took Trump&#8217;s side</a> at a town hall event, claiming that no &#8220;assault&#8221; against the ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields took place. Fields responded by calling out her &#8220;friend&#8221; Hannity for &#8220;not challeng[ing] Trump on his lies.&#8221;</div>
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<div>&#8220;This whole situation is insane. So sad to see my &#8216;friend&#8217; @seanhannity not challenge Trump on his lies,&#8221; wrote Fields Monday after the town hall. </div>
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This whole situation is insane. So sad to see my &#8220;friend&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity">@seanhannity</a> not challenge Trump on his lies <a href="https://t.co/kLTxb8JIqg">https://t.co/kLTxb8JIqg</a>
&#8212; Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleFields/status/717176378156777472">April 5, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<div>&#8220;Ok. @Michellefields I wrote u privately. I watched the tape 150 times. I do NOT see what u allege. Sorry I don&#8217;t,&#8221; responded Hannity, the same claim he made at the town hall and on his radio show. </div>
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Ok. <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleFields">@Michellefields</a> I wrote u privately. I watched the tape 150 times. I do NOT see what u allege. Sorry I don&#8217;t. <a href="https://t.co/MLVgeQRZSx">https://t.co/MLVgeQRZSx</a>
&#8212; Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/717184259497332736">April 5, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<div>Fields sent a brief, incensed response: &#8220;@seanhannity yes u wrote me privately &amp; then brought it up on radio &amp; tv last week that you wrote me privately. What&#8217;s your point?&#8221;</div>
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<div>The fiery exchange is yet another episode in the ugly saga, which has resulted in Trump&#8217;s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski being <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4475/trumps-campaign-manager-charged-battery-reporter-james-barrett">charged with misdemeanor battery</a> after surveillance footage clearly shows that, despite his repeated denials, he did in fact grab Fields and forcefully pull her backward, as she alleged.</div>
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<div>The latest rumor out of the Trump camp is that <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4642/trumps-campaign-manager-getting-sidelined-hank-berrien">Lewandowski has been quietly &#8220;sidelined.&#8221; </a> Meanwhile, in public, Trump continues to smear Fields. At first he claimed she &#8220;made up&#8221; the whole thing, but once the Jupiter Police Department released the surveillance footage he changed his attack to accusing her of exaggerating the offense.</div>
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<div>Here&#8217;s more info on <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4475/trumps-campaign-manager-charged-battery-reporter-james-barrett">the Lewandowski-Fields incident</a>.</div>

Ex-Breitbart Reporter Rips ‘Friend’ Sean Hannity for Protecting Trump

Fox News

Sean Hannity

Michelle Fields, the former reporter for Breitbart whose battery charge against Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was spurred by the Trump campaign&#8217;s refusal to apologize for Lewandowksi&#8217;s actions and their <a href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a56035/donald-trump-michelle-fields-corey-lewandowski-assault-allegations/">attempted smearing</a> of her reputation, has been receiving multiple death threats, according to <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/04/exclusive-police-investigate-deaths-made-against-michelle-fields-listen-to-the-chilling-audio/">The Blaze</a>.
On Friday, Fields reported the threats to authorities; one of which was displayed in a frightening phone call she received that she also recorded. The man on the other end of the line informed Fields that if she didn&#8217;t drop her charge against Lewandoski, who was <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/03/29/arrest-report-issued-for-trump-campaign-manager-corey-lewandowski-over-alleged-assault-of-ex-breitbart-reporter/">arrested and charged</a> last week, the man would &#8220;slit her throat.&#8221;
Fields&#8217; home address and phone number were made public by Buzzfeed and Fox News, which published a copy of the Lewandowski arrest report and did not redact Fields&#8217; personal information.
The exchange with the caller went like this:
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Caller: If I find you Michelle, I&#8217;m going to kill you
Fields: Okay &#8230;
Caller: I know where you live.
Fields: Okay &#8230;
Caller: You have got 36 hours to drop the charges. I&#8217;m dead serious.
Fields: Or what? What are you going to do?
Caller: I&#8217;m going to slit your throat.
Fields: OK, you have serious issue. Anything else? Are you just going to keep calling me and saying this?
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The man hung up. The audio is below:
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A caller who seemed to be the same man reportedly phoned Fields&#8217; brother and threatened him.
Fields has received death threats over Instagram, including examples like these: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to stab this knife in your heart, just wait. I know where you live.&#8221; &#8220;You are dead, bitch. I have someone watching your every move. See you at the morgue.&#8221;
The responding officer on Fields&#8217; report, Jake Coletti, wrote, &#8220;On April 1st 2016 at approximately 0100 hours the undersigned responded to the listed location for a felony threats report. Upon arrival, C-1 reports that at approximately 0045 hours, S-1 commented on C-1&#8242;s Instragam several times threatening to kill C-1. S-1 also called C-1 and threatened her again.&#8221;
Fields <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/03/30/michelle-fields-abandons-apartment-over-safety-concerns-after-fox-buzzfeed-publish-personal-info/">moved out of her apartment</a> last week after the threats became too much.

Michelle Fields Getting Serious Death Threats

Revisiting the incident between Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, Fox News Channel&#8217;s Sean Hannity said video of the incident did not show an &#8220;assault.&#8221; With a cheering crowd at a town hall style event with the Republican front-runner in Milwaukee on Monday, Trump and Hannity seemed to both agree that Lewandowski&#8217;s grabbing of Fields was much ado about nothing.

&#8220;I watched the videotape at least 150 times. Did anybody see anything that looked like an assault?&#8221; asked Hannity to the audience, who loudly responded in the negative. Lewandowski was charged with simple battery in Florida following the incident between himself and Fields.

Seemingly praising Trump for doing what he implied was the more difficult decision of not acquiescing to critics&#8217; demands to fire Lewandowski, Hannity asked the real estate mogul why he decided to stand by his campaign manager.

&#8220;When I saw the tape, first I saw [Michelle Fields&#8217;s] statement that she was practically thrown to the ground,&#8221; replied Trump, saying he would have fired Lewandowski had events been as Fields had described them.

&#8220;How can I fire a man and ruin a man&#8217;s life?&#8221; asked Trump rhetorically about the prospect of firing Lewandowski, adding that he demonstrated loyalty to his campaign manager candidate just as he would demonstrate loyalty to America as president.

 
Fields mentioned Hannity in a tweet moments after the aforementioned comments.

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This whole situation is insane. So sad to see my &#8220;friend&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity">@seanhannity</a> not challenge Trump on his lies <a href="https://t.co/kLTxb8JIqg">https://t.co/kLTxb8JIqg</a>
&#8212; Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleFields/status/717176378156777472">April 5, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Insane. <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">@realDonaldTrump</a> knows I didn&#8217;t do this. Continues to lie and lie and lie. <a href="https://t.co/QfYN4bbKpP">https://t.co/QfYN4bbKpP</a>
&#8212; Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleFields/status/717173515787624448">April 5, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Immediately following the town hall&#8217;s conclusion, Hannity responded to Fields on Twitter.

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Ok. <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleFields">@Michellefields</a> I wrote u privately. I watched the tape 150 times. I do NOT see what u allege. Sorry I don&#8217;t. <a href="https://t.co/MLVgeQRZSx">https://t.co/MLVgeQRZSx</a>
&#8212; Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/717184259497332736">April 5, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Hannity: ‘I Didn’t See’ Lewandowski ‘Assault’ Fields

Donald Trump spoke to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/opinion/sunday/trump-does-it-his-way.html?_r=0">Maureen Dowd</a> of The New York Times in one interview and <a href="http://therightscoop.com/my-evidence-is-total-common-sense-trump-admits-he-has-no-evidence-cruz-attacked-his-wife/">Chris Wallace</a> of Fox News in another.
Speaking to Dowd, Trump admitted that instead of his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski attempting to smear the reputation of Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields (as Trump also did) after Fields asked for an apology, an apology would have been a better alternative.
He allowed, “Yeah, it was a mistake. If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have sent it.”
One might surmise that the only reason Trump was sorry was the blowback from the affair, rather than a sudden qualm of moral conscience. That inference would be bolstered by Trump’s interview with Wallace, in which Wallace questioned Trump about his nasty retweet targeting Ted Cruz’s wife Heidi. That exchange went like this:
<blockquote>Wallace: You talk about the fact that you’ve only been a politician for eight months, but there are other issues that you that you’ve gotten in trouble on in the last week or so that have more to do with just judgment and temperament. For instance, the fact that you spent days going after Ted Cruz’s wife., her looks –
Trump: Excuse me, excuse me. Ted Cruz came after me.
Wallace: No, he didn’t.
Trump: Well, he did through my wife.
Wallace, firmly: No, he didn’t.
Trump: He took a picture –
Wallace: No, he didn’t.
Trump: Of course he did. Of course he did.
Wallace: Do you have any evidence that he knew about the attack by the independent Super-PAC?
Trump: My evidence is total common sense. He knew those people; those people are one hundred percent for them; they coordinated together, I have no doubt about it in a million years; he did that attack, and this –
Wallace, dropping his supposed devotion to the truth for a moment: Even if he did, was it worth spending that amount of time on it?
Trump: No, I would say, I would say probably not. If I had to do it again I probably wouldn’t have sent it. I didn’t think it was particularly bad, but I probably wouldn’t have sent it. But this was a response, this wasn’t me starting something. This was a response.</blockquote>
Trump’s repeated lying about Cruz’s involvement, his claim that his supposed facts are based on his “common sense,” his statement that the retweet “wasn’t particularly bad,” all testify to the candidate’s view of the world.
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