FAYETTVILLE, N.C. (AP) – The campaign of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday strongly denied allegations that his campaign manager roughly “yanked” a female reporter’s arm, and questioned her credibility in a statement and on social media.
Michelle Fields, a reporter with conservative outlet Breitbart News, says Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski physically pulled her away from Trump after a news conference in Florida earlier this week.
Fields wrote in a first person post on breitbart.com Thursday that, after asking Trump a question as he was leaving a room at his Jupiter, Florida, golf course, she was “yanked” by a man that another reporter identified as Lewandowski.
“Trump acknowledged the question, but before he could answer I was jolted backwards. Someone had grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me down. I almost fell to the ground but was able to maintain my balance. Nonetheless, I was shaken,” she wrote.
Fields on Thursday also posted a photo on Twitter of a bruised arm. “I guess these just magically appeared on me,” she wrote. “So weird.”