The honeymoon interval between marketing campaign aide Corey Lewandowski and Donald Trump’s marketing campaign could also be over based on a report from The Guardian. Trump’s first marketing campaign supervisor from his 2016 run was introduced again into the MAGA marketing campaign in August, and the trip appears to have been a bumpy one.
In line with an nameless Trump official, Lewandowski has allegedly clashed just like the proverbial bull in a china store with marketing campaign co-managers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles’ present staff.
“He blew himself up,” the official tells The Guardian. “The entire staff has been working together for two years. You think you’re going to come in at the end and throw your weight around? A bit misguided.”
Lewandowski’s particular place within the 2024 marketing campaign has reportedly been the topic of a lot hypothesis, and seen by many for example of Trump fostering divisiveness inside the MAGA ranks. Whereas the Trump marketing campaign denied stories of Lewandowski-related battle or uneasiness on the time, a “Trumpworld source” advised political reporter Jake LaHut, “There’s probably shit brewing, like the old days.”
Lewandowski has a well-documented historical past of being a dirtbag, going again to his first flip as Trump’s marketing campaign chief when he was charged with battery for grabbing a reporter throughout a rally in March 2016. Lewandowski was fired in June 2016, after stories that he clashed with nearly everybody besides Trump. Lewandowski denied that he had any persona points with Trump’s youngsters on the time.
In 2021, Lewandowski was eliminated as head of the Trump-friendly tremendous PAC, Make America Nice Once more Motion, after allegations that he sexually harassed and assaulted a high Republican donor, Trashelle Odom. Lewandowski was charged with misdemeanor battery and reached an settlement with prosecutors to dismiss expenses in lieu of neighborhood service, a fantastic, and an apology to Odom.
Odom appeared in an interview on CBS final week to retell her uncomfortable encounter with Trump’s buddy, saying she was floored that Lewandowski had been introduced again into any place of energy within the MAGA world. “He was very kind and said things to make me feel like Corey would not be there anymore,” Odom recalled of telephone conversations she had with Donald and Eric Trump within the days after the alleged incident.
Lewandowski’s makes an attempt to carve out a bigger position within the marketing campaign appears to have been placed on maintain, a minimum of for now, and he’s now allegedly relegated to surrogate duties solely. In fact, like Trump, Lewandowski has an actual knack for failing upward, so his look as a surrogate on CNN, the place he was shut down by host Jim Acosta final week for being unable to reply easy questions, doesn’t imply he’s going away anytime quickly.
As one nameless Trump ally advised The Guardian, “He’s Trump’s comfort blanket. And he’s like a cockroach. He never dies.”
