Police in Jupiter, Fla., had charged Lewandowski last month with simple battery in the wake of the March 8 confrontation with Breitbart News correspondent Michelle Fields. But he said their decision in the case has “nothing to do with existence or nonexistence of an apology”. Yes, the burden of proof is less in a civil case, but she is just not going to win and it will be expensive and a heartache.
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“Had an apology had been given at the beginning of this we could have avoided this whole thing as a criminal justice matter”, he said.
In a written explanation for not pursuing the charges, the State Attorney’s Office said there was a “reasonable hypothesis of innocence”, meaning the state did not feel it would be able prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. I know that sounds like a long time, but in a three-second incident that I don’t recall because it wasn’t very memorable, this has really taken over a big piece of my life. They said evidence showed Fields touched Trump, prompting Lewandowski to grab her. A nearby Secret Service agent appeared unconcerned by Fields’ actions.
The chief assistant state attorney for Palm Beach County, Adrienne Ellis, said Fields had violated press protocol by entering a protective bubble established by US Secret Service officers guarding the candidate. Edmondson would not say what the news conference will be about.
“We agree that probable cause exists for the Jupiter Police Department to have charged Mr. Lewandowski in this case”, Aronberg said on Thursday. Fields’ own employer published a piece calling into question the legitimacy of her allegations, prompting her to resign along with the conservative publication’s editor-at-large, Ben Shapiro. In the days after Fields alleged the manhandling, Lewandowski called her “totally delusional”, and Trump suggested the journalist was lying about being grabbed.
Haslam, who considered entering a seminary before deciding to join the family truck-stop business after college, said in his veto message that the bill “trivializes the Bible, which I believe is a sacred text”. Whether Fields quit her position at Breitbart, or she was terminated due to the video capturing her out-of-line behavior with Trump, haters and supporters both admired her aggressiveness to, get the scoop by any means necessary. “We have a higher standard to go forward with a prosecution”, he said of his own office. Florida prosecutors announced their decision on Thursday, according to CBS News. Mr Trump now leads the race. Marco Rubio in Florida. He is a registered Democrat and has supported Hillary Clinton, but he also noted that he shared a bathroom at law school with Texas Sen.
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The prosecutor said he understood the case had garnered global attention, but the political climate did not affect his decision. Viewers witnessed Fields trying to interview Trump as he was walking.
