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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu May 18, 2017, 11:39 AM May 2017

Trump Reportedly Wants Corey Lewandowski to 'Bring Order' to White House Staff

by Aidan McLaughlin | 7:49 pm, May 17th, 2017

President Donald Trump is considering getting the old gang back together: in a Politico report out Wednesday, sources said the president wants former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to “bring order” to his White House staff.

According to Politico, Trump is increasingly frustrated by the numerous scandals dogging his administration, and is turning to trusted former advisors as he loses faith in his current team:

"Former officials including Jason Miller, David Bossie and Corey Lewandowski have slid back into the president’s group of advisers as Trump has chafed at the steady stream of damaging leaks and critical blind quotes that have flowed out of the West Wing."


Lewandowski was spotted at the White House on Wednesday, and reportedly met with the president. Per Politico:

"A White House official said that Trump has floated the idea of bringing back his longest-serving campaign manager, who recently resigned from his lobbying shop Avenue Strategies amid allegations that he appeared to be selling access to the White House. He has told people that the president has asked him to “bring order” to Trump’s feuding White House staff, according to a GOP operative briefed on the situation."


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http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-reportedly-wants-corey-lewandowski-to-bring-order-to-white-house-staff/
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Trump Reportedly Wants Corey Lewandowski to 'Bring Order' to White House Staff (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP
By beating people senseless dalton99a May 2017 #1
Oh Yeah, That'll Do It Me. May 2017 #2
"HE'S A TREMENDOUS RE-ARRANGER OF DECK CHAIRS! THE BEST! BELIEVE ME!" bullwinkle428 May 2017 #3
Good one.... dixiegrrrrl May 2017 #12
I can hear it now: "The beatings will continue until morale improves!" nt neeksgeek May 2017 #4
Hahahaha SHRED May 2017 #5
BWAA. HA. HA. SticksnStones May 2017 #6
You mean former CNN political analyst Corey Lewandowski? underpants May 2017 #7
So he thinks that Lewandowski will be able to BumRushDaShow May 2017 #8
. NRaleighLiberal May 2017 #9
Well damn, Don, I just got the good scoop on this (really depressing) Lewandowski Leghorn21 May 2017 #10
if he's as smart as he thinks he is, Lewandowski will avoid that chaos like it's the plague. brush May 2017 #11
Oh please let this be true eleny May 2017 #13
He seems to regard his closest supporters as unruly grade school children. lpbk2713 May 2017 #14

underpants

(182,794 posts)
7. You mean former CNN political analyst Corey Lewandowski?
Thu May 18, 2017, 11:50 AM
May 2017

The scandals are coming from the chair behind the desk.

The staffers (those that there are) are in a daily popularity contest with the press, as dismayed as the rest of us, and understandably paranoid about being charged.

BumRushDaShow

(128,933 posts)
8. So he thinks that Lewandowski will be able to
Thu May 18, 2017, 11:56 AM
May 2017

keep him off his twitter machine?

Half of these "scandals" are from his own self-inflicted poison dart tweets.

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
10. Well damn, Don, I just got the good scoop on this (really depressing) Lewandowski
Thu May 18, 2017, 11:59 AM
May 2017

character from YOU, on Monday!!

So apparently, dft simply cannot incorporate "new" players in his ranks, eh? Miller is writing his drivel for overseas blabber-fests - why not find new writers?? He still talks about his effing F-35 crap - why no new material?

And now he's retrieving oldie but not-so-good remnants of his past, instead of booking some new talent - ??? - well, I - I think he's - cray

Excellent Lewandowski info via DonV on Monday:


Inside Corey Lewandowski's Failed Romp in Trump's Swamp


BY JASON ZENGERLE
7 hours ago

He was a political nobody who helped Donald Trump win the White House. Then Corey Lewandowski went to Washington, hell-bent on making his fortune and changing the lobbying game forever. Here's how those grandiose plans blew up—and what they say about the sketchy new opportunities available in Trump’s Washington.

The first thing Corey Lewandowski wanted to discuss was the view. "You've gotta check this out," he said, beckoning me behind his desk and pointing toward the window, eager that I appreciate his proximity to power in Donald Trump's Washington. The sky that day was the gray, gloomy color of slate. But the future—his future—seemed to him impossibly bright.

It was January, and from the window of his still-brand-new lobbying firm, Avenue Strategies, Lewandowski directed my attention to the horizon. There, in the distance, was the clock tower of the Old Post Office Pavilion, the Romanesque Revival edifice rechristened as a Trump hotel. In the foreground, as alabaster as a wedding cake, was the White House, a prize that, even to Lewandowski, had seemed hopelessly out of reach when Trump tapped him to run his campaign in 2015. But so much had changed since then—and now even the iconography of Washington was being refashioned. For nearly a century, the straight line from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument to the Capitol had defined the city. Suddenly, all that seemed outdated to Lewandowski. He held his hands aloft and—like some latter-day L'Enfant—beheld for me a new axis of power.

"O.P.O.," he said, framing the clock tower of Trump's new hotel.

"White House." He spread his hands wider to encompass the presidential mansion.
"Avenue Strategies." He threw open his arms and looked around his office, seven stories above Pennsylvania Avenue, smack dab in the middle of the action. "This," Lewandowski said, satisfaction dripping from every syllable, "is Trump World!"

Then as now, Lewandowski's place in that kingdom was a curious one. He had come to Washington eager to make use of his connections, seemingly impatient to capitalize on his closeness to Trump. And though he had never before worked as a lobbyist, he harbored outsized ambitions to transform the entire influence industry, sharing with me a vision to utilize his own "disruptive" powers—which he'd likened to those of Uber—to build his firm into what he dreamed might one day be "a billion-dollar company."

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http://www.gq.com/story/inside-corey-lewandowski-trump-lobbyist-failed

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
14. He seems to regard his closest supporters as unruly grade school children.
Fri May 19, 2017, 12:27 AM
May 2017



I don't see how they can bear to continue working for such an asshole.

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