Donald Trump claims the female reporter whom his campaign manager was charged with battering could have been carrying “a little bomb” when she attempted to ask him a question at a press conference earlier this month.
During a town hall Tuesday on CNN, Trump read aloud a copy of the statement made by ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields when she first accused Corey Lewandowski of “tightly” grabbing her arm at an event in Jupiter, Fla.
“Give me a break,” Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, while dramatically paraphrasing Fields’ statement.
“Look, it would be so easy for me to terminate this man … and say, ‘You’re fired,'” the Republican presidential front-runner said of Lewandowski.
He continued, “Just so you understand, [Fields] was off base. She was grabbing me. She had a pen in her hand, which Secret Service does not like because they don’t know what it is — is it a little bomb?”
Despite nodding in agreement hours earlier when a supporter at his campaign rally suggested Lewandowski may have intervened to prevent Fields from falling, Trump also told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that Fields “had no trouble with her balance.”
