Because 2016 just isn’t 2016 enough, Donald Trump turned it up a notch. His escalating defense of his thug of a campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, following the thug's Tuesday arrest for battery of reporter Michelle Fields has spiraled off the chart.
"She was off base," Trump told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "She had a pen in her hand, which Secret Service is not liking because they don’t know what it is, whether it's a little bomb."
Breitbart reporter or suicide bomber? It's probably not the first time that question has been asked, actually, but still. But it gets even better when Trump is asked if he's okay with his campaign manager roughing up women reporters, and Trump answers that she just wasn't roughed up enough.
"If you saw on the tape something different, would you have fired Corey?" Sean Hannity asked on his Fox News program on Tuesday night. […]
"Oh, if he threw her to the ground, I would have fired him immediately," Trump declared. "Absolutely, if she was thrown to the ground. But, I mean, look what she said: 'I was jolted backwards, somebody grabbed me by the arm and yanked me down. Campaign managers aren't supposed to forcefully throw reporters to the ground."
"Campaign managers aren't supposed to forcefully throw reporters to the ground." Okay, then. Good to know he has some ground rules for his staff.