We don't care what you see - Trump campaign denies manager grabbed protester at Arizona rally

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/19/trump-campaign-manager-lewandowski-arizona-rally
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Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has denied that its manager grabbed and pulled the collar of a protester at a rally on Saturday, in another incident in a growing series of physical clashes at the Republican frontrunner’s events.

Footage posted on the internet by a CBS reporter appears to show Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager, yank a protester by his collar at an event in Tucson, Arizona. A second man, behind the protester, also appears to grab the demonstrator, a young man who spins around to confront them after realizing he is being physically restrained.

Campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks denied that Lewandowski pulled the man, saying the aide “was speaking with a protestor at today’s rally in Tucson, Arizona when the individual he was speaking with was pulled from behind by the man to Lewandowski’s left.”

“The video clearly shows the protestor reacting to the man who pulled him, not to Mr Lewandowski,” she told the Guardian. “Mr Trump does not condone violence at his rallies, which are private events paid for by the campaign.”

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Hmmmmmmmmmmm!

[joshdawg]

1. Who ya gonna believe?

Me or your lyin' eyes.

[barbtries]

5. yep.

kinda scary what's going on

[malaise]

9. I'll take my lyin' eyes for 2,000

Alex

[In_The_Wind]

2. Hope needs a new pair of glasses.

[malaise]

3. Great toon

[In_The_Wind]

4. Thanks.

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[malaise]

6. Lovely image

[Thespian2]

7. The GodOffalParty will pay

dearly for Drumpf...Any down ticket Dems not supporting Bernie's policies and fighting hard against Drumpf will probably lose...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Lewandowski wears suit. Definitely hand with same color suit grabbing & spinning. . nt

[stage left]

10. It was definitely him. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Corey Lewandowski -- A nasty piece of work and the C-word

2013 -

But some of his most fiery clashes came with a female official who ran one of the states under Lewandowski’s control. The relationship ― and patience for Lewandowski within AFP ― reached a tipping point in October 2013. On the sidelines of a meeting of the group’s board in Manhattan, Lewandowski loudly berated the employee for challenging his authority, getting in her personal space and calling her a “c---” in front of a group of AFP employees, including some senior officials, according to three sources who either witnessed the exchange or dealt with its aftermath.

-- Politico

2014 - "most recent job with the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity landed the group under investigation for voter suppression in North Carolina in 2014." ... "The voter registration effort that Lewandowski headed was shut down after the 2014 elections and Politico said he left the organization shortly thereafter as it “became clear that Lewandowski didn’t have much of a future with the group.”" -- Daily Beast

Lewandowski boasted about threatening to “blow up” the car of the organization’s chief financial officer over a late expense reimbursement check during the 2012 election cycle, according to multiple sources who are familiar with his claim. (Lewandowski in an email denied this account.)

-- Politico

2015 -

Roger Stone, ... quit the campaign last year citing the candidate’s lewd attacks against another female journalist, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. Multiple insiders say they detected Lewandowski’s fingerprints on the departures of Stone and another longtime Trump official, Sam Nunberg, asserting that Lewandowski seeks to shield Trump from receiving other advice.

2016 - In January after pulling Trump out of the debate Lewandowski threatens Kelly:

In a call on Saturday with a FOX News executive, Lewandowski stated that Megyn had a ‘rough couple of days after that last debate’ and he ‘would hate to have her go through that again.’ Lewandowski was warned not to level any more threats, but he continued to do so.

-- DailyWire

March 8, Lewandowski assaults reporter Michelle Fields.

And, separate from the incident with the Breitbart reporter Fields, other reporters who have covered the Trump campaign described instances in which Lewandowski was rough with journalists, using his body to push reporters away from the candidate. They described the former New Hampshire police officer as occasionally acting more like a security guard than a political operative.

-- Politico

Additionally, reporters told POLITICO that Lewandowski has made sexually suggestive and at times vulgar comments to ― and about ― female journalists who have covered Trump’s presidential bid. One reporter who was on the receiving end of such comments described them as “completely inappropriate in a professional setting.” Lewandowski said in an email that he’d never behaved inappropriately with female journalists.

-- Politico

Ref.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/16/the-shady-past-of-corey-lewandowski-donald-trump-s-campaign-manager.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-corey-lewandowski-220742
http://www.dailywire.com/news/4036/trumps-campaign-manager-thinks-violence-shouldnt-hank-berrien

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Gaslighting again, I see. nt