Republican congressional candidate in Montana cited after incident with reporter – sheriff

The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office issued Gianforte a citation for misdemeanor assault, hours after Ben Jacobs, a reporter for the U.S. edition of the Guardian newspaper, said in a Twitter post and in a television interview that Gianforte “body slammed” him at a campaign event in Bozeman.

(Reporting by Brendan O’Brien in Milwaukee- Editing by Robert Birsel)