GOP candidate’s campaign refutes ‘body slam’ narrative [Audio and Full Statement]

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By Rich Mitchell

A reporter claimed that he was body slammed by Montana House candidate Greg Gianforte on the eve of the election. Ben Jacobs, a liberal reporter from the Guardian entered Ginaforte’s private office uninvited while the candidate was in a separate interview. Jacobs began badgering Greg with questions despite being asked to leave. What happened next up for debate. Jacobs insists that he was body slammed. https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/867517225820966912 “I wasn’t expecting detailed policy,” Jacobs said in an MSNBC interview. “But then again I also wasn’t expecting to be body slammed.” Gianforte’s campaign released a statement with a tick-by-tick account of the encounter and it doesn’t exactly jive with the biased reporter’s. https://twitter.com/JoePerticone/status/867539075590488065 “The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs entered the office without permission,” the statement reads. “[Jacobs] aggressively shoved a recorder in Greg’s face and began asking badgering questions.” When the reporter declined to take the phone out of Gianforte’s face and leave the office, Greg tried to Grab the phone pushed in his face. That’s when things went sideways. “Jacobs grabbed Greg’s wrist and spun” taking them both off-balance and to the ground. “It’s unfortunate that this aggressive behavior from a liberal journalist created this scene,” wrote campaign spokesman Shane Scanion. Audio of the encounter has been released but does little to clear up which account is most accurate. https://youtu.be/fhoH4v8xYlU Was the reporter body slammed or did Mr. Jacobs create a situation intended to harm the reputation of a Republican candidate the night before the election?

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