GOP candidate in Montana charged with assault on reporter

House candidate Greg Gianforte has been charged with misdemeanor assault after reportedly body-slamming a journalist in Montana the night before the state's special election. CBS News' Meg Oliver has details.

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[onefatstratcat]

Montana is becoming the new Florida :)

[draxthemsklonst]

Doesn't everyone want a CIVIL civil servant?

[ad-csqc]

Only audio and of course the reporter will lie about what happened and exaggerate it.

[matthews]

Chris Cuomo begged him to come try that with him.

[normanoro]

Not all conservatives are like Donald Trump or Greg Gianforte. I hope that's obvious. No one's perfect (we all have problems that weigh on us), but this is pretty bad if it played out the way most people say it did.

[dannyboy]

Montana should be the state where Muslims should move to

[deanladue]

hope Montana makes it State Law that reserves the right to knock the crap out trouble making reporters. Don't mess with Montana.

[smcneal]

How you are fallen from heaven,
    O Day Star, son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
    you who laid the nations low!
You said in your heart,
    “I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne
    above the stars of God;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
    on the heights of Zaphon;
I will ascend to the tops of the clouds,
    I will make myself like the Most High.”
But you are brought down to Sheol,
    to the depths of the Pit.
Those who see you will stare at you,
    and ponder over you:
“Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
    who shook kingdoms,
who made the world like a desert
    and overthrew its cities,
    who would not let his prisoners go home?”
All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
    each in his own tomb;
but you are cast out, away from your grave,
    like loathsome carrion,
clothed with the dead, those pierced by the sword,
    who go down to the stones of the Pit,
    like a corpse trampled underfoot.
You will not be joined with them in burial,
    because you have destroyed your land,
    you have killed your people.

Isaiah 14: 12-20

[davidlee]

heck yeah -dems will lose everything everywhere hahaha!

[ringogringo]

the reporter was asked if he had everything he brought with him when he was leaving, let's see he said, wallet, testicles, & spectacles. he said two out of three ain't bad, Lol.

[snuckyr]

He stuffed a microphone in his face. Slamming him on the ground and punching him seems like a reasonable response

[leonsingleton]

The gay reporter should never have grabbed the candidate.