'Can I press charges?': Trump fires off tweetstorm after top aide charged with simple battery

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump went on a Twitter offensive Tuesday after his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was charged with simple battery.

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The police in Jupiter, Florida, charged Lewandowski and released security footage that appears to show him yanking then Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields backward and away from Trump after a press conference earlier this month.

Trump fired off a series of tweets defending Lewandowski and questioning Fields.

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In perhaps the most brazen of the bunch, Trump speculated about whether he could file his own charges against her.

"Victory press conference was over. Why is she allowed to grab me and shout questions? Can I press charges?" he wrote.

Two of Trump's tweets featured screenshots of the security footage in which Fields did not appear to be grabbing the candidate:

Trump's tweet represents a shift in the campaign's defense of Lewandowski. It previously maintained that Lewandowski never touched or even met Fields.

The charge against Lewandowski came in relation to an incident at a March 8 Trump campaign event, in which he was accused of manhandling Fields, who worked for Breitbart until she quit over the incident.

Lewandowski turned himself in to Jupiter police, The Palm Beach Post reported. He is due in court on May 4, according to CNN.

Trump has repeatedly refused to denounce Lewandowski.

During a CNN interview on Tuesday, Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said that the campaign has "total confidence" in Lewandowski, who she said will keep his position as campaign manager.

Here are Trump's other Tuesday tweets about the charge:

For her part, Fields responded to Trump's initial accusations by saying that he was lying about what happened:

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