US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has defended his campaign manager who has been arrested in Florida and charged with simple battery in connection with an incident happened earlier this month.
Police in Jupiter, Florida, said on Tuesday Corey Lewandowski was charged for grabbing and bruising the arm of Michelle Fields, a reporter for Breitbart News, as she tried to ask Trump a question during a March 8 campaign event.
Trump on Tuesday night argued that Lewandowski acted appropriately by getting physically involved when Fields approached him.
“She shouldn’t have been touching me,” he said during a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, referring to Fields.
“She had a pen in her hand,” Trump told CNN anchorperson Anderson Cooper. “It could have been a knife. It might have been dangerous.”
The Republican frontrunner said he would not punish his top aide because he did nothing wrong during the incident.
“I would have loved to…