Corey Lewandowski inappropriate behavior megathread UPDATE: he's been arrested

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Lewandowski is a pretty tough dude.

Yeah, nothing says tough like beating up a female reporter.

The guy is probably a scumbag (duh, he works for Trump), but this is clearly a nontroversy. It's nothing but a reporter starved for attention, and the Anti-Trump media uncritically embracing her story in a last-ditch effort to bring him down.

If that is considering "beating up", there must be hundreds of reporters assaulted in America every single day.

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Lewandowski is a pretty tough dude.

Yeah, nothing says tough like beating up a female reporter.

The guy is probably a scumbag (duh, he works for Trump), but this is clearly a nontroversy. It's nothing but a reporter starved for attention, and the Anti-Trump media uncritically embracing her story in a last-ditch effort to bring him down.

If that is considering "beating up", there must be hundreds of reporters assaulted in America every single day.

Sure, the term "beating up" was intentionally hyperbolic. My general point still stands however - manhandling a female reporter isn't a sign of toughness. Note that this is true regardless of whether he actually did it or not.

Ah, I see. As most news stories (and the reporter herself) have been talking about this being an "assault", I wasn't too sure about the hyperbole. As for the rest, I agree of course.

What surprises me about this story is how much attention it has gotten compared to the literally hundreds of other stories that could/should be damaging for Trump. Judging from the video evidence, the guy may have grabbed her arm for second, probably too roughly. If so, he should apologize - but really, calling it "assault" and involving the police? I doubt it would've gone that far if this was the campaign manager of some unknown local politician.

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Just wondering, what would be the maximum punishment in America for a crime of this sort? Not a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely curious here.

It's seems a very minor offense, though he should obviously apologize.

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Just wondering, what would be the maximum punishment in America for a crime of this sort? Not a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely curious here.

It's seems a very minor offense, though he should obviously apologize.

A minor offense...

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To me the way he and the campaign reacted is the story is the bigger story. They are more or less a bunch of hacks that completely denied it and then drug Fields through the mud. They made a little thing into a big story.

Yeah, seems like they could easily have dispelled with the story with a different reaction, even with just some sort of non-apology apology. "Sorry if I happened to grab a reorter a bit too roughly as we left, but we were in a hurry, and I didn't want Trump to be bothered". Well, perhaps phrased a bit smoother than that, but something in this regard.

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Unfortunately, when you are the owner and president of your own company (even one as large as the Trump empire), you begin to think that you can do anything, surround yourself with yes-men, let your emotions rule your head, and gradually lose touch with reality.  Trump is a poster child of this.

If Trump was someone who had to operate in a check and balance political or corporate system (say as a CEO of a public corporation), he would recognize that this was the time to cut his losses (irrespective of what really happen), have Lewandowski issue an apology and move on.  But because in the past 20 years he made all key decisions himself, and has not had to apologize to anyone, he is just not getting it.  And while his (ever shrinking) base is eating it up, he is probably ensuring that he couldn't beat anyone in the General Election.

Is there actually any evidence of this?

And btw, compared to all the borderline insane stuff Trump himself has said and done during the past year, I really do not think this is that big a deal (though the his campaign has handled it as hilariously as you'd expect). Certainly can't see many of his fans rethinking their support over it.