The reporter who was at the center of the biggest firestorm involving Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said Tuesday that she was glad Lewandowski suddenly left Trump’s team the day before.

“I’m just happy to see that he is no longer a step away from the White House,” the reporter, Michelle Fields, said during an interview on Yahoo News Now.

On Monday morning, Trump’s spokeswoman announced that Lewandowski had parted ways with the presumptive GOP nominee’s campaign. Lewandowski had been Trump’s campaign manager since the early days of his White House bid.

Lewandowski, who had reportedly quarreled with another top Trump aide, Paul Manafort, had been involved in a series of controversies during the campaign. Notably, he was charged with simple battery after video footage showed him grabbing Fields’ arm at a Trump campaign event in March. A Florida state prosecutor announced in April that Lewandowski would not be prosecuted.

Before the video was released, Lewandowski denied even touching Fields, who was then reporting for Breitbart News.

@MichelleFields you are totally delusional. I never touched you. As a matter of fact, I have never even met you. — Corey Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) March 11, 2016





“I care deeply about this country and I think having someone like that, who is a liar and defamed me, in the White House is a scary thing,” Fields told Yahoo News Guest Host Stephanie Sy on Tuesday.

The incident caused turmoil in the ranks of Breitbart News, a conservative site known for favoring pro-Trump stories. After Breitbart questioned its own reporter’s account, Fields and other Breitbart reporters resigned.

In May, the left-leaning Huffington Post announced that it had hired Fields. Unlike Breitbart, Fields’ new employer is decidedly against the Trump campaign: It affixes a footnote calling Trump a racist, sexist liar on the bottom of its Trump stories.

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“It’s been amazing,” Fields told Sy of the transition to the Huffington Post. “Everyone there has been completely supportive and it’s a much better environment than where I was before.”

She continued: “When the Lewandowski stuff happened, my employer knew what had happened. My editor had spoken with Corey the night that it happened. And Corey confirmed to him that the incident occurred. And instead, they decided to pretend like they hadn’t spoken to Corey. … That’s not a news organization. A news organization is supposed to be interested in the truth.”

Fields gave the interview as she promotes her new book, “Barons of the Beltway: Inside the Princely World of Our Washington Elite — and How to Overthrow Them.”