While it remains unclear how far, if anywhere, the lawsuit against Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will go, who as reported earlier was charged with battery of former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields during an altercation in early March, one thing is clear: he will remain in his post. According to The Hill, citing campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson, the Trump campaign “will stand by campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.”
“The allegation is that he grabbed her aggressively, nearly throwing her to the ground,” Pierson said. “That did not happen, its not on the video, and Mr. Lewandowski will be cleared of all charges.” When CNN host Wolf Blitzer asked whether Lewandowski would remain in his position if he did not “beat” the charge, Pierson said he would.
“Yes, absolutely. Mr Lewandowski is an integral part of this team, the camp wholeheartedly supports him and will see him through the entire ordeal,” she said.
She added that it’s common for people to be “jostled or moved or hit” in media scrums both by campaign officials and members of the media, and compared the altercation to when she received a cut on her arm from a news camera during a scrum, and floated the possibility of restricting access to the press in response.
“You could start suing networks now for slashing your arm with a camera, which happened in my case. This is absurd, it is ridiculous and it will be beat,” she said. “If anything, perhaps campaigns, particularly presidential campaigns, should begin to change the rules of the type of access the press gets from here on.”
Meanwhile, The Hill also reported that a lawyer representing Lewandowski resigned from his post as a U.S. attorney in 1996 after he allegedly bit a stripper at a Miami nightclub.
Kendall Coffey, who was appointed by President Clinton in 1993, stepped down after the Justice Department concluded an investigation into the nightclub incident, according to reports from the time. Coffey, a founding partner of the law firm Coffey Burlington, then returned to private practice.
He was involved in the high-profile custody battle of Elian Gonzalez in 2000.
Additionally, Coffey’s law firm is representing Trump in a suit he brought against Doral, Fla., residents living near one of his golf courses. Trump is accusing the residents of chopping down trees on the course’s property.
All this assures that the media circus surrounding what is already the most entertaining presidential race in decades, is not going anywhere.
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