The Trump Apocalypse Watch is a subjective daily estimate, using a scale of one to four horsemen, of how likely it is that Donald Trump will be elected president, thus triggering an apocalypse in which we all die.
News broke Wednesday night that Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, will not face prosecution for grabbing and pulling reporter Michelle Fields after a Florida press conference on March 8. Local authorities indicated in court documents that, while Lewandowski did grab Fields, he may have had reasonable cause to do so because she’d approached Trump—who’s ostensibly supposed to have a protective Secret Service bubble around him—abruptly.
The bad news for Trump is that his campaign initially responded to Fields’ accusation by denying that Lewandowski had ever touched her at all and suggesting she had fabricated the entire incident, which is obviously not true. And you can’t undo a month-plus of headlines about how your notoriously hotheaded campaign manager allegedly left bruises on the arm of a much smaller reporter, then lied about it. For now the danger level remains set at one horseman.
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