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“Mr. Lewandowski is an integral part of this team. The camp wholeheartedly supports him," Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said Tuesday in the wake of assault charges against campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Trump spokeswoman: Lewandowski will 'absolutely' keep his job

Corey Lewandowski will “absolutely” maintain his role with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, national spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said Tuesday.

Jupiter, Florida, authorities charged Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager, with simple battery on Tuesday for allegedly grabbing a former Breitbart reporter by the arm at a campaign event earlier this month. Lewandowski turned himself in Tuesday morning, and the Trump campaign has maintained Lewandowski is innocent and will plead not guilty.

Asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer whether Lewandowski would stay with the campaign or be forced out if he doesn’t beat his court case in May, Pierson said “absolutely” to the former.

“Yes, absolutely,” she said. “Mr. Lewandowski is an integral part of this team. The camp wholeheartedly supports him.”

Surveillance video of the incident, though choppy and missing frames, appears to show Lewandowski reaching toward former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields. But Pierson disputed Fields’ claims.

“She specifically said that he aggressively grabbed her and nearly threw her to the ground. It is very obvious that is not what happened in this case and Mr. Lewandowski’s definitely gonna fight it,” Pierson said.

Pierson contended that Fields has changed her story and suggested she wasn’t initially concerned following the incident because she didn’t immediately contact the campaign or authorities. (Fields has said she didn't want to go to police but was left with no choice.)

After Fields filed a police report, Lewandowski tweeted that she was “totally delusional,” adding that “I never touched you” and “I have never even met you.”

“I know a lot of these reporters and bloggers think that they’re known and they’re really not,” Pierson said, adding that it’s “insane” to think one person would know every reporter who comes to the Republican front-runner’s campaign events and that these things happen frequently with every campaign.

“Everyone knows at these type of scrum events there is some jostling around and some pushing and the second you cross that Secret Service threshold, you will be moved away from the candidate. This is not new,” she added. “Corey Lewandowski is going to beat this. He will plead not guilty, and we’ll just have to let this process play out.”