The biters bit

IT TAKES a lot to make a humdinger of a National Enquirer exposé look mundane; Donald Trump and his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, have just managed it. Mr Lewandowski, a former police officer known for his abusiveness and alleged habit of making drunken advances to female journalists in late-night phone calls, was on March 29th charged with battery against one, Michelle Fields. One of the lawyers hired to defend him, it was alleged, had himself been accused of biting a stripper. Asked to condemn his man, Mr Trump naturally went on the attack.

Ms Fields had accused Mr Lewandowski of grabbing her and barging her out of the way, as she was asking the Republican front-runner a question at a rally in Florida. Mr Lewandowski called her “delusional”; Breitbart News, the pro-Trump publication Ms Fields was working for at the time, seemed to side with him. Yet security-camera footage, released by the police, appeared to corroborate her claims. Unimpressed, Mr Trump suggested Ms Fields had been threatening him. “She had a pen in her hand which could have been a knife, it could just have been a pen, which is very...Continue reading

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