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Michelle Fields, pictured here, resigned from Breitbart Sunday night. | POLITICO screen grab Michelle Fields, Ben Shapiro resign from Breitbart

Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields and editor-at-large Ben Shapiro have both resigned from the company, the two announced on Sunday evening. And more are expected in the coming days.

"Nobody wants to stand with [Breitbart Chairman Stephen] Bannon," said one source at the company on Sunday evening. "Besides the senior management and his loyal reporters that provide pro-Trump stenography."

In her statement, Fields cited the company's lack of support over the past week after she became the center of a media and political firestorm following an incident on Tuesday when Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski forcibly grabbed Fields' arm to move her away from the candidate as she tried to ask a question. Fields, who has shown pictures of her bruises from the incident, has filed a police report in Jupiter, Florida where the altercation took place.

"Today I informed the management at Breitbart News of my immediate resignation. I do not believe Breitbart News has adequately stood by me during the events of the past week and because of that I believe it is now best for us to part ways," Fields said.

Fields told POLITICO that she has still not been contacted by Bannon since the incident on Tuesday.

BuzzFeed News first reported on the resignations on Sunday night.

Though Breitbart, known for its pro-Trump slant, released some statements saying they stand behind their reporter and asked Lewandowski to apologize, the site also published an article which initially suggested, based off of incomplete video of the interaction, that the entire incident was a case of mistaken identity. But after further video surfaced showing that Lewandowski reached for Fields, the site updated the story. Soon after, the site's spokesman Kurt Bardella dropped Breitbart as a client of his communications company, saying he could no longer 100 percent stand behind the website.

Shapiro, who has adamantly defended Fields on television and online, said the website has acted in a "disgusting" manner and has betrayed its founder, Andrew Breitbart's legacy.

"Andrew built his life and his career on one mission: fight the bullies. But Andrew’s life mission has been betrayed. Indeed, Breitbart News, under the chairmanship of Steve Bannon, has put a stake through the heart of Andrew’s legacy," Shapiro said. "In my opinion, Steve Bannon is a bully, and has sold out Andrew’s mission in order to back another bully, Donald Trump; he has shaped the company into Trump’s personal Pravda, to the extent that he abandoned and undercut his own reporter, Breitbart News’ Michelle Fields, in order to protect Trump’s bully campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who allegedly assaulted Michelle."

"Both Lewandowski and Trump maligned Michelle in the most repulsive fashion. Meanwhile, Breitbart News not only stood by and did nothing outside of tepidly asking for an apology, they then attempted to abandon Michelle by silencing staff from tweeting or talking about the issue. Finally, in the ultimate indignity, they undermined Michelle completely by running a poorly-evidenced conspiracy theory as their lead story in which Michelle and [Washington Post reporter Ben] Terris had somehow misidentified Lewandowski," Shapiro said

Unhappiness at Breitbart over the site's overtly pro-Trump stance had been simmering for months. Those divisions erupted this past week, as some Breitbart staff were upset at what they saw as a lack of a full-throated defense of their own reporter. Staff told not to post in support of Fields on social media after the incident, and two sources with direct knowledge of the calls told POLITICO Bannon made disparaging remarks about Fields in conference calls following the incident. (Breitbart denied Bannon made those remarks).

Other staff at Breitbart have been circulating resumes, though Breitbart's strict contracts may hamper some from immediately leaving, sources at the company said. But the internal strife has even popped up in the site's own articles. One article about Trump claiming the man who rushed the stage at a rally in Ohio was connected to ISIS notes that "Breitbart News had quoted Trump in three different stories without contradicting the claim, but investigation reveals a number of disparities that obviously call that claim into question.

"This truly breaks my heart," Shapiro said at the end of his statement. "But, as I am fond of saying, facts don’t care about your feelings, and the facts are undeniable: Breitbart News has become precisely the reverse of what Andrew would have wanted. Steve Bannon and those who follow his lead should be ashamed of themselves."

Breitbart management did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Sunday evening.