FNC’s Alicia Acuna: I Saw the Whole Thing When Gianforte Body Slammed Ben Jacobs

‘Greg Gianforte campaign has released a statement saying that Jacobs aggressively shoved the recorder in the Gianforte’s face and Greg then attempted to grab the phone pushed in his face’

EXCERPT:

ACUNA: "I can tell you that I was in the room with Fox News photographer Keith Railey and Fox News producer Faith Mangan. We were the people who you could hear Ben Jacobs ask can I get your names? We were standing there setting up to do an interview with Mr. Gianforte and we had arrived early to set up. We were in a room adjacent to a volunteer barbecue for his campaign that was about to happen and then he came in. We started talking and introduced himself. We started talking about just chitchat about Bozeman in general when Ben Jacobs from 'The Guardian' came in with his reporter placed his recorder right up to him about here and started asking him questions about the CBO -- a CBO report on the Republican health care bill. And you heard what happened from there. I myself was standing about two feet from both Gianforte and Jacobs when this happened. There was a table in between us, but I did see the whole thing when Gianforte grabbed him by the neck both hands, slid him to the side, body slammed him and got on top of him and started punching and then yelling at him."

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