After Being Grabbed at Trump Event, Breitbart Reporter Michelle Fields Tells Her Story

"Campaign managers aren’t supposed to try to forcefully throw reporters to the ground, no matter the circumstance."

“I never sought to be part of the story,” is how Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields begins her first-hand account of the incident that was destined to become a news story, thanks, in part, to the Trump campaign’s history of aggression toward reporters.

The incident in question happened Tuesday at a Donald Trump event in which, and we’ll use Politico‘s wording here, Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski “forcibly grabbed” Fields, “moving her out of the way and nearly bringing her down to the ground.”

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