I’d known Michelle Fields, she’s been on the show, you know that, for many, many years, and I go back to her original statement, “Someone grabbed me tightly by the arm, yanked me down, I nearly fell to the ground, jolted backwards”.
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Police released a video of the incident showing Fields walking alongside Trump and trying to question him.
Video later showed that Lewandowski had indeed grabbed her arm, and he was charged by cops.
“It is not uncommon that a candidate’s inner circle staff members, known to [Secret Service] agents, are given apparent authority to assist in clearing a safe pathway, sharing some responsibility for the safety and well-being of the candidate when agents are otherwise occupied”, the “no file” memo reads.
Aronberg would not comment, but in a POLITICO interview last week, he pointed out that Jupiter police had a low “probable cause” standard to cite Lewandowski for battery.
But Aronberg said that the evidence available did not “defy the reasonable hypothesis of innocence”, and the state declined to prosecute the case as a result.
In a Thursday night appearance on “Hannity” on Fox News, Lewandowski thanked Trump for supporting him and said the decision to drop the charges was a relief. Fields her arm was bruised in the episode.
Aronberg noted that the legal bar for a police charge is lower than the one for an actual prosecution.
On her Twitter page, Fields expressed dismay that reporters learned about Aronberg’s decision before she did.
“Are you a little annoyed, angry, upset that they brought it up in the first place?” She has not posted Thursday. Aronberg’s spokesman, Mike Edmondson, denied the report Wednesday and said the investigation is continuing.
“This is an apolitical office”, Aronberg said, and the case was handled in a “non-partisan manner”. They said evidence showed Fields touched Trump, prompting Lewandowski to grab her. A nearby Secret Service agent appeared unconcerned by Fields’ actions.
The Palm Beach County state attorney’s office said in a document on Thursday that they would not pursue charges against Lewandowski, Trump’s top political aide. “I think it’s a very, very sad day in this country when a man can be destroyed over something like that”, the Republican frontrunner said then. “He’s an honorable guy and he did not let politics play a role in this”. Both Cruz and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, who calls NY her adopted state and has increasingly targeted Trump as her likely general election opponent, have been hammering the glaring vulnerability.
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“There is a fabric of indecency that permeates the Donald Trump campaign… and that is not what people want representing America”, Cooper told MSNBC after the decision. Perhaps alluding to the struggles his campaign has faced recently, he added Lewandowski “wasn’t quite as effective for the past couple of months”.
