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Lewandowski has a protection racket going on with business. (Original Post) Ilsa Mar 2017 OP
Sounds like insider-trading. DetlefK Mar 2017 #1
Yes, it does. Baldly. And bigly. dchill Mar 2017 #4
WTF! potone Mar 2017 #2
Not a joke: Ilsa Mar 2017 #3
Outside protection from the don drumpflioni crime family. democratisphere Mar 2017 #5
Makes one wonder if they get a gold "T" spray-painted on their building Buns_of_Fire Mar 2017 #6

Ilsa

(61,698 posts)
3. Not a joke:
Tue Mar 14, 2017, 07:12 AM
Mar 2017
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/donald-trump-advisers-companies-us-president-tweets-corey-lewandowski-barry-bennett-twitter-feed-a7628901.html
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Speaking to the New York Times, Mr Bennett said that Avenues Strategies, the company he and Mr Lewandowski opened in offices just two blocks away of the White House, allows them to be a “sherpa through turbulent times” for US businesses seeking to get in the good graces of the US president.

“If he’s gonna come after you, there’s nothing we can do to stop it,” Mr Bennett said.

“But if you want to figure out how to win in this environment, we can help you,” he added. SNIP

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http://www.redstate.com/patterico/2017/03/13/corey-lewandowskis-new-trump-tweet-protection-racket/

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The solution, of course, is to throw a bone to Donald Trump:

So far, the administration “hasn’t done much beyond “a few executive orders,” Mr. Bennett says. So he and Mr. Lewandowski are pressing American companies to “call Jared Kushner and tell him you’re gonna build a new factory,” or invite Mr. Trump to “fly somewhere, cut a ribbon, and high-five 200 employees.”
It’s even OK if he lies about what he made your business do for America — as long as you keep your damned mouth shut about it:

Mr. Bennett says the two men advised Lockheed Martin, not a current client, on how to recover from a “horrible” meeting with Mr. Trump after he tweeted, “Based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the Lockheed Martin F-35, I have asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!” Mr. Bennett said Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed’s chief executive, led a “boring” presentation about stuff like “procurement reform,” for a president who asked why the United States can’t lease fighter planes. Mr. Trump wanted a win, and the advisers told Lockheed how to give him one.

Two weeks later, Mr. Trump was on TV saying, “I was able to get $600 million approximately off those planes.” In fact, the savings were years in the making and had nothing to do with Mr. Trump, but Lockheed didn’t point that out. SNIP

Buns_of_Fire

(17,197 posts)
6. Makes one wonder if they get a gold "T" spray-painted on their building
Tue Mar 14, 2017, 08:28 AM
Mar 2017

(instead of the more-traditional swastika) if they don't cough up the bucks.

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