Michelle Fields 2.0: Snowflake Liberal Reporter Claims He Was ‘Body Slammed’ By GOP Candidate

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Guardian political reporter Ben Jacobs claims Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate in Montana’s special congressional election, body slammed him during an interview in Bozeman, Mont., Wednesday.

The altercation between the reporter and Gianforte comes on the eve of Montana’s special election to replace Secretary Ryan Zinke, who left a vacant seat in Congress when he was tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the Department of the Interior.

Jacobs asked Gianforte about the Congressional Budget Office’s score of the House’s recently passed American Health Care Act, according to an audio recording of the altercation posted by The Guardian.

There is a pause, then sounds of a scuffle, and a crash.

“I’m sick and tired of you guys, the last time you came in here you did the same thing,” Gianforte said after the altercation. “Get the hell out of here! You with The Guardian?” Gianforte said.

“Yes,” Jacobs said. “You just broke my glasses.”

Gianforte repeated that Jacobs should “Get the hell out of here.”

“You just body slammed me and broke my glasses,” Jacobs said.

 LISTEN:

The Gianforte campaign defended the GOP candidate in a statement, and said that Jacobs had grabbed Gianforte’s wrist, and “aggressively shoved a recorder in Greg’s face.”

“Jacobs was asked to leave,” the campaign said. “After asking Jacobs to lower the recorder, Jacobs declined. Greg then attempted to grab the phone that was pushed in his face. Jacobs grabbed Greg’s wrist, and spun away from Greg, pushing them both to the ground.”

BuzzFeed reporter and former Daily Caller Hill correspondent Alexis Levinson said she heard the altercation through a doorway. Jacobs walked into the room to interview Gianforte, then “All of a sudden I heard a giant crash and saw Ben’s feet fly in the air as he hit the floor,” Levinson said in a tweet.

The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the confrontation.

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