Re: Trump Campaign Manager Arrested, Charged with Battery of Reporter
But it is begging the question. You have to assume your impression of what is shown in the video before you can accept that she exaggerated it.
Wrong again.
The premise is her claim. The evidence to review are the videos.
Do any of the videos show her being pulled down, jolted backwards (a contradiction to the first) or her almost loosing her balance?
No they don't.
Would any of the available videos show these things if they had happened? Yes they would have.
There is no begging the question here accept by the other party who claimed she was
telling the truth.
Occam's razor isn't your friend here...
No, it isn't your friend, or hers.
No it doesn't. Again, I understand how desperately you need to believe that but it shows nothing of the sort.
You are projecting.
No it doesn't. It shows him grabbing her left arm (something he denied doing) and from the angle we can see her left arm to the elbow, and his hand somewhere below that.
Wrong.
The video shows a grab on her clothing which is either of the clothing alone or of her upper arm area also. Not the forearm.
You can see his hand on the upper arm where the fabric of the upper back is also being scrunched and pulled because of the close proximity of the grab.
... (something he denied doing) ...
This denial is irrelevant as there was no attempt to purposely deceive.
Objectively and in context his reply is in response to the exaggerated claims being made.
He knows he did not try to pull anyone to the ground as was being claimed. In context he is denying the exaggerated incident.
Anyone focusing on this irrelevant information just speaks to their being unobjective. It would be like saying that Jamie Weinstein lied when he said other reporter
s saw it, or when he claimed he tried to pull her
to the ground. He was mistaken but he did not purposely engage in deception/lie.
The video does not show such a grasp.
You are assuming facts not in evidence.
Your scenario is unlikely given that he would have to have wrap his hand around her adult forearm and have long enough fingers to do so. And it is even unlikely that such a grab would produce the bruising we see as they are pin points.
That isn't true either. I can almost wrap my hand around my own forearm and my forearm is much bigger than hers.
Wrong again. Everything I said is true.
1. The video shows his hand on her upper arm, not her elbow.
2. Whether or not you can wrap your hand around your own forearm is irrelevant to this discussion and to what I stated.
3. Almost? Funny, that doesn't cut it, nor would you get your thumb and just three digits to line up in such a row.
Such point bruising as we see is more likely from a thumb being on the opposite side giving leverage for the four fingers to make the points.
Had it been a wrap around as you want to lamely assume, you would not have the thumb line up as a point and you would also have elongated bruising from the length of the fingers, not just points.
At that point you jump headfirst down the rabbit hole arguing that a Breitbart reporter conspired with a WaPo reporter to make up a story and then she ran home and pressed four somethings into her own arm to create bruises to coroborate her made up story.
That rabbit hole seems to be all yours especially as you are arguing against (conspired), something I
had not presented.
As the video only shows a grasp on the upper arm which also pulled the fabric of her upper jacket, the forearm marks had to come from something other than Lewandowski grabbing her upper arm.
How do you suppose she self inflicted those bruises?
Really? You do not think she can't grab her own forearm hard enough to inflict such bruises or even direct or agree to have someone else to do it?
As the video only shows a grasp on the upper arm which also pulled the fabric of her upper jacket, the forearm marks had to come from something other than Lewandowski's upper arm grasp.
It's not exaggerated, he grabbed her and pulled her in the opposite direction she was walking.
The exaggeration comes when they claim he was trying to pull her down. Her exaggeration also comes when she says she was jolted backwards and when she claims she almost fell to the ground when the video shows none of these things.
Her reaction, based on the video and the audio is that she walked away from the encounter complaining to the guy standing next to her.
Funny. Like I said; Her reaction does not fit her claim of being pulled down so forcefully.
