Donald Trump's campaign finally responded to Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields' accusation that campaign manager Corey Lewandowski yanked her to the ground while she attempted to ask a question at a press conference Tuesday night.
While Fields says that The Washington Post's Ben Terris identified Lewandowski as the man who grabbed her "tightly by the arm and yanked [her] down," nearly taking her to the ground, Trump campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks said in a statement Thursday afternoon that neither Fields nor Terris has ever met Lewandowski and that no one else at the event seemed to have noticed the incident:
Fields offered her take on the incident earlier Thursday, calling Lewandowski's behavior "out of line" and insisting that she "never sought to be part of the story."
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