Well, the slow boiling feud between the Trump campaign and the digitial division of the Trump campaign (aka Breitbart) seems to have escalated a bit. Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields wrote a story earlier today describing her encounter with Trump’s thuglet campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, saying that hopefully the book was closed on the mater.
The Daily Beast reported earlier today that Matt Boyle reached out to the Trump campaign for an explanation and was told, basically, “Sorry, we didn’t know she was from Breitbart.”
The Trump campaign has issued a response, and they flat out call Fields a liar.
NEW: Trump campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks responds to allegations campaign manager assaulted Breitbart reporter: pic.twitter.com/LHRMKXzy3K
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 10, 2016
Fields, for her part, is firing back, pointing out that other journalists were there, witnessed it, and have written about it.
Trump’s campaign claims there were no witnesses. Here is a report from @bterris of the @washingtonpost. He saw it https://t.co/lU1H1Qh1TW
— Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) March 10, 2016
She’s also posted a picture of where Lewandowski allegedly bruised her arm:
I guess these just magically appeared on me @CLewandowski_ @realDonaldTrump. So weird. pic.twitter.com/oD8c4D7tw3
— Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) March 10, 2016
Meanwhile, over at Breitbart, there seems to be a small internal war erupting over whether they can stand behind their own reporter for being assaulted by Trump’s campaign, or not.
