'Weapons grade victim-blaming': Trump campaign manager says Michelle Fields is an 'attention seeker'

As we reported earlier, Team Trump responded to allegations that campaign manager Corey Lewandowski manhandled Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, who later tweeted a photo of her bruised arm. The final paragraph of the Trump campaign’s statement accuses Fields of exaggerating claims of what happened while she was covering a 2011 Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City [emphasis ours]:

This person claims she does not want to be part of the news, and only report it, however if that was the case, any concerns, however unfounded they may be, should have been voiced directly first and not via twitter, especially since no other outlet or reporter witnessed or questioned anything that transpired that evening. We leave to others whether this part of a larger pattern of exaggerating incidents, but on multiple occasions she has become part of the news story as opposed to reporting it. Recall she also claimed to have been beaten by a New York City Police officer with a baton.

After Trump’s campaign said that Fields “claimed to have been beaten by a New York City police officer with a baton,” Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, in an attempt to show that Fields is an “attention-seeker,” tweeted these:

Daily Caller reporter assaulted by NYPD during ‘Occupy’ protests — professional reporting or attention seeking? https://t.co/FqOQQMvNcy

— Corey R. Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) March 10, 2016

Michelle Fields is an attention seeker who once claimed Allen West groped her but later went silent. https://t.co/J86Ej42eYx

— Corey R. Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) March 10, 2016

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“Attention seeker”? Dude…

https://twitter.com/JGreenDC/status/708014525849546752

Lewandowski isn’t winning over many with these particular attempts to make a point that Fields is merely seeking attention:

False, and you bruised her @CLewandowski_ . YOU made her the story.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 10, 2016

Is ripping a reporter nearly to the ground professional campaign management @CLewandowski_? Or were you just seeking attention?

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) March 10, 2016

https://twitter.com/Bear2theRight/status/708027785458159616
https://twitter.com/willrahn/status/708017715605282816
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/708033765147287552

Is he trying to say him assaulting a reporter and leaving bruises is "attention seeking?" cc: @MichelleFields https://t.co/kI39TilPg2

— Tracy Jeffords (@TracyJeffords) March 10, 2016

https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/708015228525649921

See how she attention-seeked her way right into the ground, there? https://t.co/cmTcJDm3sU

— Tim Mak (@timkmak) March 10, 2016

https://twitter.com/jesseberney/status/708014901873213440

@CLewandowski_ Assaults a woman, lies about it and then attacks her reputation. No wonder he's working for @realDonaldTrump

— Gym (@GymmyS) March 10, 2016

So it's @MichelleFields fault. That's what you're going with? https://t.co/LNlSMSu4DH

— Epstein Didn't Kill Himself us395 ????️ (@US395) March 10, 2016

https://twitter.com/MoonbatCatnip/status/708014900019208192
https://twitter.com/1Cal83/status/708014512738144256
https://twitter.com/Aaron_RS/status/708022039483850752