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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLewandowski has a protection racket going on with business.
He and his partner are offering tweet risk protection or advice to avoid getting tweeted about by 45, causing your stock price to dip.
How is this legal?
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Lewandowski has a protection racket going on with business. (Original Post)
Ilsa
Mar 2017
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DetlefK
(16,423 posts)1. Sounds like insider-trading.
dchill
(38,545 posts)4. Yes, it does. Baldly. And bigly.
Is this a joke?
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 hes gonna come after you, theres 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 hasnt 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 youre gonna build a new factory, or invite Mr. Trump to fly somewhere, cut a ribbon, and high-five 200 employees.
Its 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, Lockheeds chief executive, led a boring presentation about stuff like procurement reform, for a president who asked why the United States cant 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 didnt point that out. SNIP
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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 hes gonna come after you, theres 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 hasnt 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 youre gonna build a new factory, or invite Mr. Trump to fly somewhere, cut a ribbon, and high-five 200 employees.
Its 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, Lockheeds chief executive, led a boring presentation about stuff like procurement reform, for a president who asked why the United States cant 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 didnt point that out. SNIP
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)5. Outside protection from the don drumpflioni crime family.
This country is in a total shambles.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,197 posts)6. Makes one wonder if they get a gold "T" spray-painted on their building
(instead of the more-traditional swastika) if they don't cough up the bucks.