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News conference amid reports Donald Trump aide won’t be prosecuted

Published on April 14, 2016 in 2017/Top Headlines by Associated Press

A Florida prosecutor’s office plans to hold a news conference amid reports that presidential candidate Donald Trump‘s campaign manager won’t be prosecuted over a videotaped altercation with a female reporter. In an e-mail, Mike Edmondson of Palm Beach County state attorney Dave Aronberg‘s office says there will be a news conference at 2 p.m. Thursday. Edmondson would not say what the news conference will be about. Police in Jupiter, Florida, charged Corey Lewandowski with simple battery, a misdemeanor, last month.…

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Diane Roberts: Yale tells Rick Scott it’s not ready to swap ivy for kudzu

Published on April 4, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Diane Roberts

It’s springtime! and idiocy is in full Florida bloom. The state Supreme Court just ruled that a disingenuous and dissembling solar energy initiative is good to go on this November’s ballot. The proposed amendment, “masquerading as pro-solar” (in the words of dissenting justice Barbara Pariente), is sponsored by utility companies. Yes, utility companies, those nice people who charge the taxpayers for power plants they may not even build, those great environmentalists who want solar about as much as you want…

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Today on Context Florida: Jupiter police blotter, Pam Bondi & climate change, corporate child abuse and when the bad voices win

Published on April 1, 2016 in Apolitical by Phil Ammann

Today on Context Florida: Donald Trump’s campaign manager is now part of the Jupiter, Florida police blotter, says Bob Sparks. His victim, according to the probable cause affidavit, is a battered and bruised former reporter for the conservative Breitbart News. Corey Lewandowski and Michelle Fields were not household names before this avoidable public spectacle. If the cable news outlets and bloggers have their way, the video capturing the incident will loop over and over again. As all of this plays out,…

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Donald Trump campaign: manager “absolutely innocent” of assaulting reporter

Published on March 29, 2016 in 2017/Top Headlines by Ryan Ray

The Donald Trump campaign issued a swift response to the criminal charges which came down on campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Monday, saying he is “absolutely innocent” of misdemeanor battery. Police allege Lewandowski grabbed former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields at a press conference in Florida earlier this month after Fields attempted to ask Trump a question. According to first-hand accounts of the incident, Fields was “clearly roughed up” and fell to the ground after Lewandowski grabbed her by the arm. “Mr. Lewandowski was issued a Notice to Appear and…

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Police charge Donald Trump campaign manager with battery

Published on March 29, 2016 in 2017/Top Headlines by Associated Press

Florida police have charged Donald Trump‘s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski with simple battery in connection with an incident earlier in the month involving a reporter. Police in Jupiter, Florida, issued Lewandowski a notice Tuesday to appear before a judge on May 4 for the misdemeanor charge. A surveillance video released by the police appears to show Lewandowski grabbing a reporter for Breitbart News as she tried to ask Trump a question during a March 8 campaign event. The Trump campaign…

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Assault charges filed in Jupiter against Donald Trump campaign manager

Published on March 11, 2016 in 2017/Top Headlines by A.G. Gancarski

Legal troubles may be in the offing for the often surly Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager for Donald Trump, after assault charges were filed against him in Jupiter on Friday. Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields claims, and witnesses corroborate, that Lewandowski handled her roughly after a Trump rally in Jupiter, grabbing her arm and leaving bruises. “Trump acknowledged the question, but before he could answer I was jolted backwards,” she wrote Thursday. “Someone had grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me…

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