Trump's attack on the Reporters takes the next step; misdemeanor assault of a Guardian reporter who was body slammed to the floor!!!

Montana Republican candidate Greg Gianforte will probably be the next conservative House member, simply because over half the votes have already been mailed in. So what we’ll have is a criminal and a thug making decisions about the direction America will going in, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

Here’s a quick summary of the story with a conservative pundits opinion, along with the reporters perspective. From All in with Chris Hayes:

The Republican candidate for Montana’s congressional seat has been charged with misdemeanor assault after he is alleged to have slammed a Guardian reporter to the floor on the eve of the state’s special election, breaking his glasses and shouting: “Get the hell out of here.”

Ben Jacobs, a Guardian political reporter, was asking Greg Gianforte, a tech millionaire endorsed by Donald Trump, about the Republican healthcare plan when the candidate allegedly “body-slammed” the reporter. “He took me to the ground,” Jacobs said by phone from the back of an ambulance. “I think he whaled on me once or twice … He got on me and I think he hit me … This is the strangest thing that has ever happened to me in reporting on politics.”

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