Trump: ‘How do you know those bruises weren’t there before?’

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In this Aug. 25, 2015, file photo, Donald Trump walks with his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, after a news conference in Dubuque, Iowa.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP)

Donald Trump is defending campaign manager Corey Lewandowski against a misdemeanor battery charge after an altercation with a female reporter at a campaign event earlier this month.
He told reporters<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Tuesday that he viewed closed-circuit video of the encounter and he questioned injuries reportedly sustained by Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields. Fields showed police bruises on her arm when she reported the incident.
“Who said they were bruises from that? How do you know those bruises weren’t there before?” Trump said.
He also questioned why she didn’t react more strongly if she was being hurt.
“To me, you know if you’re going to get squeezed, wouldn’t you think that she would have yelled out a scream or something?” he said. “Take a look at her facial expression, her facial expression doesn’t even change.”
Trump said that whatever happened, he plans to keep Lewandowski on the campaign.
“I’m sticking up for a person because I’m not going to let a person’s life be destroyed over (an incident) that we have on tape, and you just take a look at what people are saying when they see that incident on tape,” he said. “No jury, in my opinion, no jury would convict a man and destroy a man’s life over what you witnessed."
Police said Lewandowski grabbed Fields’ arm and pulled her back as she was trying to ask Trump a question at the Trump National Golf Club event on March 8. When someone “intentionally touches or strikes another person against the will of the other,” it constitutes battery under Florida law.
Lewandowski, who initially denied he had ever touched Fields, is due in court May 4.
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