President Trump applauded a congressman at a rally Thursday for assaulting a reporter last year, the Washington Post reported. Trump was speaking to a crowd in Montana, where Rep. Greg Gianforte body-slammed Jewish journalist Ben Jacobs in May 2017, just days before a special election race. The president mentioned Gianforte and cracked a joke: “By…
(JTA) — Republican congressman Greg Gianforte of Montana told police that reporter Ben Jacobs made physical contact with him first, before he assaulted Jacobs when the reporter asked him a question in May. The statement contradicts eyewitness accounts and a recording of the attack by then-candidate Gianforte made by Jacobs on the eve of a…
A Montana Republican officials has resigned after she said she “would’ve have shot” a reporter who asked pointed questions of Rep. Greg Gianforte last spring. Karen Marshall, who serves as vice president of programs for Gallatin County Republican Women, said on a radio show that if Ben Jacobs would have approached her, “I would have…
Hoping to open a new page in their relationship, members of the Committee to Protect Journalists met on October 5 with Rep. Greg Gianforte, the Montana Republican who body-slammed Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs. But it didn’t end well. The group, which asked to discuss with Gianforte ways of working to defend journalists and free press,…
Ben Jacobs has still not gotten his on-the-record interview with Greg Gianforte, despite a promise from the Montana congressman to meet with the Guardian reporter after having body-slammed him in the run-up to a May special election. “So far, the Congressman has yet to commit to this interview,” the Guardian said in a Wednesday statement….
Do you ever read something that makes you go… oh, Jesus? Enter this Missoulian letter to the editor, which compares Representative Greg Gianforte’s body-slamming of reporter Ben Jacobs to Jesus overthrowing the tables of money-lenders in the Jewish temple. “He also proved to be a real Montanan to his supporters who are not self-proclaimed Christians…
Montana Republican Congressman-elect Greg Gianforte pledged to donate $50,000 to a journalism advocacy group as part of an out-of-court settlement he reached with the reporter he physically assaulted on the eve of his election. Gianforte, a wealthy technology executive who won Montana’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election May…
The reporter who was allegedly assaulted by a Montana congressman-elect inspired someone to hold a fundraiser to repair his broken glasses — which eventually morphed into an online benefit for the Committee to Protect Journalists. Ben Jacobs, a reporter for the British newspaper The Guardian, was covering a congressional race in Montana when he was…
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