Donald Trump spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, just spoke to Wolf Blitzer on CNN about Corey Lewandowski being charged by police for battery.  “We actually have total confidence in our campaign manager, we feel he is going to be exonerated,” she said, saying he would not be losing his job on the campaign.  Pierson played down the incident - where a female reporter alleges Lewandowski grabbed her arm violently - as just standard behavior in the media scrum.  “This is not different to when I’m in the middle of the scrum and get smacked by the television networks,” said Pierson, noting saying she wouldn’t sue the TV networks if a cameraman gave her a small cut.  “These types of things are not uncommon, to be jostled or moved or hit, from a campaign or a media person.... this is absurd, this is ridiculous, and it will be beat,” she said.  She also warned that journalists couldn’t get too close to candidates because of their Secret Service protection and perhaps there needed to be tighter restrictions on journalist access.  “There is some jostling around and pushing and the second you cross that Secret Service threshold, you will be moved away from the candidate,” she said.  Pierson denied that Lewandowski knew who the reporter was. “How’s he supposed to know who every single writer is? It’s ridiculous to assume... of course these things kind of happen in the scrum,” she said.  Pierson also questioned reporter Michelle Fields statements about the incident, saying that initially the reporter said she was nearly thrown to the ground, and Pierson said the video does not reflect that. The Trump spokeswoman also questioned the motives of the alleged victim.  “She didn’t contact the campaign. She didn’t contact the authorities. She didn’t contact anyone rather than Twitter when the alleged incident occurred,” said Pierson.  “Mr Lewandowski is an integral part of this campaign and the whole team supports him,” she said.
Corey Lewandowski charged with battery over incident with Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields during a Trump rally earlier this month