50% of GOP registered female voters say the won't support Trump. Wow.
But this new news should help Trump with the ladies... you know how they just love these "take charge" kind of candidates...
Donald Trump’s campaign manager was just charged with battery
By Callum Borchers, Karen Tumulty and Wesley Lowery March 29 at 12:15 PM
washingtonpost.com
The arm grab that supposedly never happened just landed Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski under arrest. Police in Jupiter, Fla., arrested Lewandowski on Tuesday morning after he turned himself in, and they charged him with misdemeanor battery in connection with an incident at a March 8 press conference. Michelle Fields, then a reporter for the conservative Breitbart News website, accused Lewandowski of grabbing and yanking her arm as she tried to ask the Republican presidential front-runner a question. A Washington Post reporter who was close to the altercation confirmed her account.
The Trump campaign continues to deny what is now plainly on video and written in a police report, with the candidate himself tweeting that there is "nothing there" and the campaign insisting in a statement that Lewandowski "was not arrested." A police report distributed to news outlets that listed his arrest time at 8:10 a.m.
"Mr. Lewandowski is absolutely innocent of this charge," the campaign statement said. "He will enter a plea of not guilty and looks forward to his day in court. He is completely confident that he will be exonerated."
A spokesman for the Jupiter Police Department clarified that Lewandowski was informed that he would be charged and voluntarily appeared at police headquarters to sign a form and acknowledge a May 4 court date.
“He came in by himself, without us picking him up, and signed his notice to appear," said Officer Joseph Beinlich, a department spokesman. Beinlich added that because Lewandowski faces a misdemeanor charge, no booking photo was taken.
Washington Post reporter Ben Terris witnessed the alleged battery and described it in a March 10 story.
As security parted the masses to give him passage out of the chandelier-lit ballroom, Michelle Fields, a young reporter for Trump-friendly Breitbart News, pressed forward to ask the Republican front-runner a question. 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.”
She took my arm and squeezed it hard. “I don’t even want to do it as hard as he did,” she said, “because it would hurt.”
The Trump campaign has repeatedly denied that Lewandowski even touched Fields, even after video emerged that appeared to show the grab. A clearer video was released by Jupiter police on Tuesday.
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