Corey Lewandowski claims he tried to contact to ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields after rally incident

A day after a Florida prosecutor declined to pursue charges of simple battery against Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, he's now claiming that he did reach out to the allegedly roughed-up ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields to apologize for the incident at a Trump campaign rally.

"I made a phone call to Michelle and I never heard back, and to this day I've never heard back from Michelle," Lewandowski said in an interview with CNN. "So, it's not that we didn't try and reach out to get to the bottom of it, it seems to be that she wanted to inject herself into making it a story, and now I'm glad the story's over."

Fields, who claims Lewandowski shoved her out of the way as she approached Trump to ask him a question after a campaign rally, initially said that a simple apology "would have been sufficient for avoiding legal action," The New York Times reports. Lewandowski claims that he did in fact want to apologize and clear the air, but that Trump insisted that that there was "nothing to apologize for."

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A Florida state attorney decided against prosecuting Lewandowski on Thursday, citing insufficient evidence to convict him.