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Corey Lewandowski may no longer be facing criminal prosecution for his March 10 encounter with Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, but charges that he is a real asshole are still pending.

Lewandowski appeared last night on CNN to explain that he only manhandled Fields, bruised her arm, and called her a liar on national television because she made him do it.

When asked why he didn’t just apologize, which Fields said would have been enough for her to drop the charges, Lewandowski claims he tried to reach out but Fields wasn’t interested.

“I made a phone call to Michelle and I never heard back, and to this day I’ve never heard back from Michelle,” he said. “So, it’s not that we didn’t try and reach out to get to the bottom of it, it seems to be that she wanted to inject herself into making it a story, and now I’m glad the story’s over.”

Did he actually call her? Who knows. Tweets he sent the same night seem to indicate he wasn’t exactly in an apologetic mood:


Corey Lewandowski has a lot of things—among them, the ire of his neighbors, the ire of his co-workers, and the tepid support of Donald Trump—but credibility is not one of them.