Trump bats for his campaign manager

Corey Lewandowski has been charged with one count of simple battery for “intentionally” assaulting a female reporter.  “She was grabbing me,” Trump, said at a town hall in Wisconsin as he strongly defended his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. 

“I’m a loyal person. I’m going to be loyal to the country. We have to tell it like it is. It would be so easy for me to terminate this man, ruin his life, ruin his family. He’s got four beautiful children in New Hampshire, ruin his whole everything, and say you’re fired,” Trump said. 

He blamed female reporter Michelle Fields of false accusation and asserted that Corey would fight out the case in the court of law.  Trump claimed that Corey had done nothing wrong after he was filmed reportedly grabbing Fields by the arm and pushing her away at a campaign event in Florida on March 8.  

Corey was charged with one count of simple battery for “intentionally” touching former Breitbart reporter Fields after local police released a video of the incident. Corey is being unfairly maligned by an opportunistic reporter, Trump alleged. 

Trump’s rivals have slammed the real-estate tycoon for not firing Corey. Senator Ted Cruz said he would ask his campaign manager to resign in such circumstances. “I know that the reporter alleged that she was physically assaulted. 

That I will say, it’s consistent with the pattern of the Trump campaign”, Cruz said. Governor from Ohio John Kasich said he would have also fired his campaign manager in such a condition.