Trump on top aide’s battery charge: ‘Nothing there’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is insisting that there’s “nothing there” after his campaign manager was charged with simple battery of a reporter on Tuesday.

“Wow, Corey Lewandowski, my campaign manager and a very decent man, was just charged with assaulting a reporter,” Trump tweeted. “Look at tapes-nothing there!”

{mosads}The Jupiter, Fla., Police Department announced Tuesday morning that Corey Lewandowski had been charged with one count of simple battery for “intentionally” touching former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields.

Video released by the police department appears to show Lewandowski reaching his left hand toward Fields between Trump and a security guard, holding her back as the GOP presidential candidate passes and then following Trump through the room.

The footage can be seen above.

In a follow-up tweet, Trump appeared to suggest Fields had changed her version of events after learning that the incident was caught on tape.

Why aren’t people looking at this reporters earliest statement as to what happened, that is before she found out the episode was on tape?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2016

Fields responded that her story never changed and called on Trump to “just stop lying.”

Because my story never changed. Seriously, just stop lying. https://t.co/1fz9cBHOuT

— Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) March 29, 2016