Michelle Fields, WaPo's Ben Terris hoax Trump
Now hoist on their own tangled web

Politico back on 3/10 posted a Hadas Gold article, "Exclusive: Transcript of Breitbart reporter allegedly being roughed up by Trump campaign manager." 

It presented a transcript of an audio tape of the now-infamous Corey Lewandowski/Michelle Fields incident after a Donald Trump event. And rereading it, in light of a newly-released videotape, does prompt some conclusions.

According to the transcript Gold/Politico offer, Washington Post writer Ben Terris joins in Fields' account. He confirms Lewandowski's identity, and is quoted as saying, "Yea he just threw you." 

Later in that transcript, Fields exclaims, "That was insane. You should have felt how hard he grabbed me. That's insane. I never had anyone do that to me from a campaign."

Terris later adds, "He really almost just threw you on the ground."

Linked below is a video of the incident they're discussing. Contrary to their hyper-ventilated retellings, at no time was she 'almost thrown to the ground.' Not even close. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLmQtOvU4Bc

Fields was briefly yanked by her upper jacket sleeve. Which makes puzzling her later claim to police that bruises on her forearm resulted. 

I've never heard of bruises migrating.

Now, this is about much more than a single incident, significant in its own right though it is. I would argue that, by pursuing legal action over a contrived complaint made for ulterior reasons, Michelle Fields has an apposite precendent in Scottsboro-hoaxer Victoria Price.

(Notable here, too, is her record of lodging assault accusations against newsmakers and even police. This is not her first 'I've been victimized' rodeo.)

The Price comparison is indeed damning criticism. But Ben Terris has committed a far greater wrong, one with considerable ramifications.

As now evident in the above video, he automatically offered a 'threw down' canard plainly not borne out by viewing. (In fact, so stilted is the dialogue exchanged by Terris and Fields that they sound very much like middle schoolers practicing scripted lines for a class play.)

After this very public exposure, any event characterizations offered by reporter Ben Terris will be of dubious credibility. By eagerly participating in this fraud, Terris has greatly damaged his own professional reputation.

If Fields and assault-hoax cohort Terris had any integrity, they would confess their deceit and ask forgiveness.

I do not expect such to be forthcoming.