Tag: Corey Lewandowski

Former Trump aide says campaign paid actors to appear at his 2016 presidential announcement

NOTE: This was reported back in 2016 and vehemently denied at the time. Surprise! It was the truth.

Donald Trump’s top 2016 aide previously denied the campaign had paid actors to appear at the future president’s big campaign-launch announcement at Trump Tower, but that same official recently told Insider that people were indeed hired to show up.

Trump kicked off his candidacy at his New York City skyscraper in a speech on June 16, 2015, appearing before a large crowd of what seemed to be his supporters. The event immediately prompted speculation about how Trump managed to draw a sizable group of people.

“I remember thinking, ‘Man, I’m surprised he couldn’t even get people there. That seems insane,'” Sarah Isgur, the deputy campaign manager for 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, told Insider as part of an oral history project chronicling one of the most unorthodox GOP primaries the country has ever seen.

Chris Wallace tears into Corey Lewandowski: ‘You’re going to blame the president’s inaction on Dr. Fauci?’

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Fox News host Chris Wallace grilled Corey Lewandowski on former President Donald Trump’s “inaction” during the COVID-19 pandemic.

During an interview on Fox News, Lewandowski floated the idea of a special congressional commission to investigate China and the origins of the COVID-19 virus.

But Wallace pointed out that Trump had avoided investigating China during his time as president. Continue reading.

Corey Lewandowski denies GOP is engaging in voter suppression

The former Trump campaign manager says Republicans are merely focused on the integrity of the process.

Donald Trump’s first-ever campaign manager denied the president’s reelection campaign is engaging in voter suppression as it enters election week trailing in polls. 

In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Corey Lewandowski brushed aside such accusations that have stemmed from Trump and the Republican Party looking to limit the collection and processing of a flood of mail-in ballots, as well as videotaping voters at a ballot drop box in Philadelphia, asserting that Republicans are looking to find voter fraud.

“Look, this is about the integrity of the process,” Lewandowski said, arguing that he didn’t believe anyone in the country should have a problem with the campaign suing to obtain the signatures of voters in Democratic-leaning Clark County, Nev. Continue reading.

Trump’s 2016 campaign brass warns he’s in trouble in 2020

Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie told the president he’s down in swing states, prompting campaign chiefs in Arizona and Florida to travel to D.C.

David Bossie and Corey Lewandowski, two key allies and former political advisers to Donald Trump, went to the White House last week to issue him a warning: The president was slipping badly in swing states, and he needed to do something to fix it.

Three days later, the Trump campaign’s political directors in Arizona and Florida — states the president won in 2016 but where surveys show him lagging — were summoned to the White House Roosevelt Room. The officials offered a detailed rundown of his organization in the battlegrounds and tried to reassure the president that he was on firm ground.

After his May 18 meeting with Bossie and Lewandowski, Trump called his top campaign lieutenants to vent his frustration about his political standing. Continue reading.

Corey Lewandowski tells the truth (gasp!) about lying to the news media

Washington Post logoCaught lying to the media, Corey Lewandowski did something Tuesday that few, if any, political types have ever done: He publicly admitted he lies to the media.

In effect, he was honest about being dishonest.

During an interview on MSNBC in February, Lewandowski, President Trump’s former campaign manager, said, “I don’t ever remember the president ever asking me to get involved with Jeff Sessions or the Department of Justice in any way, shape or form ever.”

View the complete September 18 article by Paul Farhi on The Washington Post website here.

Lewandowski hearing descends into chaos

The Hill logoCorey Lewandowski jumped to President Trump‘s defense on Tuesday during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, blasting “Trump haters” and making it clear he will not answer questions the White House wants him to avoid. 

Lewandowski, a former campaign aide to Trump who is close to the White House, took aim at Democrats and former special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation in his opening statement, describing the probes as “harassment” while alleging that some critics sought to bring down the president.

“Sadly, the country spent over three years and 40 million taxpayer dollars on these investigations. It is now clear the investigation was populated by many Trump haters who had their own agenda — to try and take down a duly elected president of the United States,” Lewandowski said in his opening statement.

View the complete September 17 article by Olivia Beavers on The Hill website here.

House Impeachment Inquiry Issues Subpoena For Lewandowski

House Democrats targeted Corey Lewandowski with a new subpoena on Thursday, demanding that he testify publicly in their ongoing impeachment inquiry focusing on President Donald Trump’s efforts to obstruct justice.

Lewandowski played a key role in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, which described Trump ordering his former campaign manager to push then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to thwart the Russia investigation. Given that Lewandowski wasn’t in the administration at all, this effort makes Trump look particularly guilty because it appears he was trying to use unofficial channels to quash the investigation.

When it has come to Trump officials Democrats have sought to interview, the White House has been relatively successful thus far in constraining their testimony. The administration has concocted an absurdly broad view of “executive privilege” to block testimony pertaining to their time in the administration

View the complete August 15 article by Cody Fenwick on the National Memo website here.

Nadler subpoenas Lewandowski, former White House official for testimony

The Hill logoHouse Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) subpoenaed former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and former White House official Rick Dearborn on Thursday, marking Democrats’ latest efforts to receive testimony from key figures in the Mueller report.

Nadler said he is seeking the public testimony on Sept. 17 from two individuals who were “prominently” involved in President Trump’s attempts to persuade then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reverse his recusal from overseeing the Russia probe.

“Corey Lewandowski and Rick Dearborn were prominently featured in the Special Counsel’s description of President Trump’s efforts to obstruct justice by directing then-White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire the Special Counsel, and then by ordering him to lie about it,” Nadler said in a statement.

View the complete August 15 article by Olivia Beavers on The Hill website here.

A Tale of Two Foundations

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Nobody ought to be surprised to hear of the belated demise of the Donald J. Trump Foundation, a racketeering enterprise under investigation by the state authorities in New York for the past two years. Barbara Underwood, the state attorney general, announced that the foundation will dissolve and its assets distributed to bona fide charitable groups. She seeks to prohibit its overseers, President Trump and his adult children, from serving on the board of any nonprofit in New York for the foreseeable future.

Raking through the foundation’s records since 2016, Underwood found what she described as “a shocking pattern of illegality,” which included not only various self-serving schemes to bolster Trump businesses and stroke Trump’s ego but also multiple (and unlawful) expenditures to advance his presidential campaign. The largest donation went to restore a fountain outside the Plaza Hotel in New York when Trump owned it. The smallest went to the Boy Scouts and appeared to be Donald Trump Jr.’s enrollment fee.

Trump misused the assets of one scam, the Trump Foundation, to protect another, Trump University. He sent a $25,000 foundation check to Florida Attorney General Pamela Bondi — an illegal donation — around the time she was considering whether to open a fraud probe into his fake educational institution. He raised millions for a veterans charity and then let Corey Lewandowksi direct the distribution of those funds in Iowa on the eve of the 2016 Republican caucuses. That violated the law, too.

View the complete December 19 article by Joe Conason on the Creators.com website here.

‘How Dare You!’: Corey Lewandowski Mocks Girl with Down Syndrome Who was ‘Caged’ by Border Agents

The follow article by Cody Fenwick was posted on the AlterNet website June 19, 2018:

Lewandowski served as President Trump’s campaign manager.

President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski tried to make light of the administration’s policy of separating immigrant families on Fox News Tuesday, and he ended up mocking a young girl with Down syndrome who had been torn away from her mother.

“I read today about a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who was taken from her mother and put in a cage,” Zac Petkanas, a Democratic strategist, said on during Fox News discussion of the policy. Continue reading “‘How Dare You!’: Corey Lewandowski Mocks Girl with Down Syndrome Who was ‘Caged’ by Border Agents”