2 months ago
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Corey Lewandowski
, Donald Trump's 2016
campaign chief
who was a senior adviser this time, has been sent back home as he was found plotting for a coup, reports claimed. He has been asked to focus on being a surrogate instead, in a major snub in the powerplay inside
Trump campaign
.
In a statement, Lewandowski said: “I’m proud to volunteer my time to do everything possible to help Donald J Trump win this election and Make America Great Again.”
"Trump had wanted Lewandowski by his side through the summer until he soured on his antics in recent weeks, they said.
Lewandowski has been told to focus on surrogate work and see what he can do about flipping New Hampshire, which Trump came close to carrying in 2016," Guardian reported.
Corey joined the campaign two months ago and trues to change things while people had been working for two years. “He blew himself up,” a Trump official said of Lewandowski. “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.”
In 2016, he was fired as the campaign chief following his clash with Trump's children. In 2021, he came back to Trump fold to run a pro-Trump Super Pac and was ousted from there over unwanted sexual advances towards a female donor. His return to Trump fold again and again makes him Trump's comfort blanket. But a Trump ally described him to The Guardian as a cockroach who never dies.
This time Lewandowski started a power struggle against Trump's campaign chiefs and then planned to lunch a secret audit into the campaign's finances. Lewandowski suggested to allies that Trump had asked him to come “run the campaign” – which was not true, and aides were quick to complain that Trump had actually told his team “let’s find something for Corey to do”, the report said attributing to sources.
