On the latest airing of The Kelly File, Megyn Kelly conducted an interview with Michelle Fields, the Breitbart reporter who alleged — along with video evidence and eye witnesses — that Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, assaulted her.
Fields (who is on Red Alert’s 30-under-30 list for 2012) has filed a police complaint, though she didn’t want to. She “didn’t want to make a big deal out of it” because she didn’t “want to be all over the press.” She was also worried about her job.
She continues to explain how Breitbart writer, Matthew Boyle, called Lewandowski,who did not deny the allegations, but said he didn’t know she was with Breitbart. Fields was told by a Trump spokesperson she would get an apology, which never came.
Instead, Fields claims the Trump campaign “has basically done a character assassination.”
Fields points to how there is video, pictures, and eyewitness accounts of a Washington Post reporter Fields calls “very credible,” who back her up. Fields emphasized that the Trump campaign is lying.
There was confusion on Fields’ part, who thought maybe a Secret Service agent grabbed her.
She “would never ever think that someone in a campaign would grab someone like that.” Further, “it just wasn’t a chaotic scene where someone would need to grab me to the point where I actually have his handprint on my arm.”
While Fields did not see who it was that grabbed her, she did turn around to see Lewandowski, and emphasizes the Washington Post reporter saw him. Fields also dismissed claims of a conspiracy between Breitbart and the Washington Post as “absurd.”
A week ago Trump would have been Fields’ second choice for president. But now she suggested Trump is “throwing me under the bus.”
Fields says the experience “feels awful.” She also suggested that Kelly may be able to sympathize with her, with the “hate” and “e-mail messages” she’s received.
Of the Breitbart staff, Fields spoke highly of editor-at-large Ben Shapiro. She has nothing else to say about the editors beyond that “I think the facts show this happened, and it’s a shame that my bosses have decided to come out against the facts.”
Kelly closed with it’s “unbelievable that it’s come to this.”
Kelly also spoke with Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson, who denied the evidence was conclusive enough to show that Lewandowski had assaulted Fields.
After having listened, Fields called it “sad” and said that Trump has been “a bully.” Having met Pierson before, and calling her “a very nice person,” Fields says “I find it hard to believe that what she’s saying she actually believes.”
Fields believes “at the very least” she should get an apology.
