For those asking, office of prosecutor asked 2 weeks ago if I’d be ok with an apology from Corey. I said ya but haven’t heard back about it— Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) April 14, 2016
.@KatiePavlich: @MichelleFields “didn’t want to press charges, but the Trump campaign demanded that she file a police report.” #KellyFile— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) April 14, 2016
From that idiotic move by Lewandowski, you have infighting at Breitbart (a Trump media ally), Ben Shapiro and Michelle Fields resigning–which just emphasizes the division among conservatives over Trump. and Lewandowki charged with a misdemeanor (because Trump’s campaign said if what she was saying is true she should file criminal charges). Not all domination of the news cycle is helpful to the candidate. Just stepping back and trying to objectively find out this helped Donald Trump, I do not see it.
More details: State’s Atty tried to get Lewandowski to agree to apologize to Fields instead of being prosecuted.… https://t.co/UoPaMGCL4F— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) April 14, 2016
Regardless of what you think of Trump as a candidate, Lewandowski as a campaign manager is supposed to be looking out and helping Trump. This did not help (and the initial grab–whether it was overtly rough or not is not the thing I am criticizing Lewandowski for, it is how he handled it afterwards). So the primary fail goes to Lewandowski (protecting the candidate means foreseeing how events will play out). Which is why Lewandowski’s role in the campaign is being de-emphasized (Oceania has always been against the Lewandowski Assault). Politico is reporting Lewandowski has been neutered in the Trump campaign.
I think I’ll pass on getting legal advice from a Trump shill. Thanks tho. https://t.co/YoPznOC9LB— Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) April 14, 2016
Michelle Fields is not particularly helped by this either. I do not think this was grandstanding, I think this is events spinning out of control. People say she has a pattern of this. The NYPD thing looked real enough to me. Female reporters do get abused when reporting the news. Rough and tumble (to a point) is part of the job, but reporting on events is also part of the job. She says she is pursuing a defamation civil case, but that will take a while. I would suggest she let it go, but that is her call.


EBL: Jeff Goldstein has something to say about Donald Trump (Protein Wisdom)