Trumps' Campaign Manager Charged With Battery

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/29/trump-campaign-manager-charged-with-battery.html

There has been an epidemic of drama queen reporters etc trying to get noticed but this is so over the top. All the street crime, violence, gang shootings, murders, corruption, etc in florida and they choose to prosecute a campaign manager for briefly grabbing a reporter's arm, if it even happened.

According to Trump, this woman has made numerous such complaints in the past at other events. I wonder if she is like the woman who claimed to be gang raped at a UVA frat party, or the BLM morons who created their own hate crime? Being a victim confers such status in millennial PC land. You can ask Erin Andrews.

It's shocking that the police and prosecutors would treat such a minor matter seriously. Hard to believe they would do this with any other campaign. One thing we have learned is Florida justice depends heavily on who you are. if you're a white guy fighting for your life against a black thug, you are fair game. if you're a white woman who claims rape by the star QB at FSU, you are a liar and an embarrassment to the school. After all, we're number one.
 
AAAintheBeltway said:
There has been an epidemic of drama queen reporters etc trying to get noticed but this is so over the top. All the street crime, violence, gang shootings, murders, corruption, etc in florida and they choose to prosecute a campaign manager for briefly grabbing a reporter's arm, if it even happened.
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Who says those other crimes are not being prosecuted?
 
The left learned they could take out a republican politician effectively if only temporarily by having them charged with some construct or another by certain friendly grand juries.

In Texas they used the Harris County grand jury to charge Tom Delay with some nonsense but it took him a few years to get clear of it and so they effectively ended his career.

The left will do anything it takes to stay in power.
 
Lie after lie after lie. The right will do anything it takes to get into power.

Donald Trump Uses Textbook Victim-Blaming To Attack Female Reporter
“If you’re going to get squeezed, wouldn’t you think she would have yelled out a scream or something if she has bruises on her arm?”
03/29/2016 06:45 pm ET | Updated 4 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — "Donald Trump on Tuesday unleashed a new line of attack against former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, just hours after Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager, was charged with battery in connection with an altercation with the journalist on March 8.

“How do you know those bruises weren’t there before?” Trump asked reporters aboard his plane in Wisconsin, referring to bruises that Fields photographed after Lewandowski grabbed her. “I’m not a lawyer,” Trump said. “If you’re going to get squeezed, wouldn’t you think she would have yelled out a scream or something if she has bruises on her arm?”

"The Trump campaign appears to be engaging in textbook victim-blaming. When Fields first reported what happened to her, Trump’s campaign spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, suggested Fields was not believable because she had reported a previous incident of police abuse. This is a classic tactic used to undermine women and other individuals who report assault — claiming that because a person reports assault more than once, he or she must be lying.

"Earlier this month, Lewandowski called Fields “an attention seeker,” “totally delusional” and denied ever having met her. Trump piled on, saying “perhaps she made the story up. I think that’s what happened.” This reaction, immediately denying the event ever happened, rather than waiting until the allegations are investigated, will be familiar to many women. In Fields’ case, video footage released on Tuesday clearly shows Lewandowski roughly grabbing her.

"The new footage forced the Trump campaign to shift tactics, and late Tuesday the candidate pivoted to accusing Fields of exaggerating and making up her injuries. He even went so far as to suggest that because she didn’t scream, she wasn’t injured, an age-old strategy used to discredit victims, especially those who have suffered domestic violence and rape.

“Nothing says ‘cherish women’ like questioning a woman’s motive after her assault has been caught on camera,” said Marcy Stech, a spokesperson for Emily’s List, a political organization that seeks to elect pro-abortion rights women, in a statement. “If Trump can’t be trusted to condemn what’s wrong,” she added, “how can he even begin to comprehend what’s right for women?”

"In at least one way, Fields is luckier than most. Many women who report battery do not have video, an eyewitness, or a national platform to give weight to their allegations.

"As Trump worked himself up into a tizzy during an impromptu press conference Tuesday afternoon, the presidential candidate began painting himself as the victim of the altercation between Lewandowski and Fields, who Trump said, was “grabbing at me, and [Lewandowski] was acting as an intermediary and trying to block her from doing that.”

“She was grabbing me. [Am I] supposed to file charges against her?” Lewandowski, Trump said, was protecting him, and “trying to get her off of me.”

"Boxed into a corner by the newly released video, Trump turned to an argument of last resort, repeatedly emphasizing that Lewandowski is “a good person,” and “he’s got a family [and] four beautiful children. I think it’s very, very unfair to a man with a wonderful family,” Trump said."
 
This whole Trump thing has reminded of that thing..the

Dunning-Kruger effect

The Dunning-Kruger effect, named after David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University, occurs where people fail to adequately assess their level of competence — or specifically, their incompetence — at a task and thus consider themselves much more competent than everyone else. This lack of awareness is attributed to their lower level of competence robbing them of the ability to critically analyse their performance, leading to a significant overestimate of themselves.

In simple words it's "people who are too stupid to know how stupid they are".
 
The Washington Post had a front page article on this incident this morning. They don't make much if any distinction between "news" and opinion pieces any more, so it was hard to tell which it was supposed to be, but they just blatantly lied about what the video showed. I have watched all the videos and all I saw was the guy brushing past the reporter as she tried to approach Trump, perhaps he grabbed her arm, tough to tell and she turns her head. No violent grabbing or pulling, as implied in the Post article.

The media/left like to create a false narrative and treat it as factual, eg republican war on women, Trump is a liar ( but not Hillary), etc. They see this as a golden opportunity to turn the tables on Trump and for once, set the agenda. Now it is Trump hates women and defends an assault on a woman.

They are totally ok with Bill Clinton violently assaulting women and Hillary directing intimidation efforts at those women. A reporter has her arm briefly tugged at and it shows Trump is a POS.
 
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