WASHINGTON: US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign manager was arrested in Florida on Tuesday and charged with battery, police records show.

The report from the Jupiter Police Department said Corey Lewandowski, 42, was charged for intentionally grabbing and bruising the arm of Michelle Fields, a reporter at the time for the conservative news outlet Breitbart, against her will at a Trump campaign event on March 8.

Meanwhile, President Barack Obama challenged the US media stop chasing ratings and take on 2016 election candidates who are willing to “lie out loud” and whose campaigns are “untethered from reason.”

Without calling out Trump by name, Obama used a journalism award ceremony in Washington to deliver his toughest condemnation yet of the caustic tone of the presidential election campaign and the media coverage of it.

Training fire on television networks’ often breathless coverage of Trump’s campaign and wall-to-wall interviews with the controversial businessman, Obama said “a job well done is about more than just handing someone a microphone.”

He said the electorate would be better served if the media were to “probe and to question and to dig deeper and demand more.”

“It would be better served if billions of dollars in free media (coverage) came with serious accountability,” he added.