one incident now Brown shirts. Repeat after me NO MORE CAFFEINE
This is just the latest incident.
You'd think obvious patterns would become at some point --- well, obvious:
>> On Tuesday night, Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski forcibly yanked Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields nearly to the ground after she asked the candidate a question,
according to witnesses.
Ben Terris, the Washington Post reporter who identified Corey Lewandowski as the one who assaulted Fields, published an
eyewitness account.
I watched as a man with short-cropped hair and a suit grabbed her arm and yanked her out of the way. He was Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s 41-year-old campaign manager.
Fields stumbled. Finger-shaped bruises formed on her arm.
“I’m just a little spooked,” she said, a tear streaming down her face. “No one has grabbed me like that before.”
The Trump campaign issued a statement denying that the incident occurred — and tacitly blaming Fields for invading Trump’s “personal space.” This contradicts earlier statements from inside the Trump campaign.
.... The statement from the Trump campaign also implies that Fields has a history of “exaggerating” and thus isn’t to be believed about the assault. Lewandowski since tweeted a link to a 2011 article in which Fields say she was attacked at an Occupy protest, accusing her of “attention seeking.” <<
Pause here for laugh track.
Everybody get that? Here's a henchman for Donald Rump ------ suggesting SOMEBODY ELSE is "attention seeking".
Oh the irony.
(continuing) >> Recently, a photographer for TIME was put in a chokehold and
thrown to the ground at a Donald Trump rally after stepping outside the press corral. Trump supporters kicked, punched, and choked Black Lives Matter activist Mercutio Southall at a rally in November — after which Donald Trump said that maybe his supporters
did the right thing. These types of violent outbreaks at Trump events have become common; today, video emerged of a black man getting punched in the face by a supporter and then wrestled to the ground by the police at a Trump rally. The man who attacked him was
allowed to stay.
Breitbart, however, has been one of Trump’s staunchest defenders. Lewandowski’s excuse hours after the incident to Mathew Boyle, Breitbart’s Washington political editor, was that he and Fields — who normally covers GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz — “had never met before and that he didn’t recognize her as a Breitbart reporter, instead mistaking her for an adversarial member of the mainstream media,”
according to the Daily Beast.
Breitbart’s weak response to the assault of their own reporter has
incensed figures in the media — including Breitbart Editor-At-Large, Ben Shapiro.
>> Protesters at prior Trump rallies have been
dragged, kicked, beaten,
choked, and
shoved to the ground.
Trump himself has failed to condemn his more violent supporters. Instead, he’s invited them on stage to be
publicly honored for beating up a high schooler, argued a Black Lives Matter protester
deserved to be roughed up, and told a crowd that he wished he could
punch a protester at a Nevada rally in the face.
“You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They’d be carried out on a stretcher,” he said at the time. <<
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